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Mon 15 Jul 2024

Bleeding

Posted by PJ under anger, conflict, contradictions, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The ‘bleeding hearts’ who want love without anger, relationship without conflict, harmony without contradictions, are forced to create an illusory world of unambivalent love.…It is not accidental that such perfect persons (who never question their own motives or suspect their hidden ideology or self-interest) make others feel tainted and guilty. Every sentimental sermon is served with a side-dish of guilt. In their presence, honest doubt is named cynicism, anger is called evil, and ambivalence is castigated as craziness.”

—Sam Keen, The Passionate Life

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Wed 12 Jun 2024

Trauma

Posted by PJ under control, quote of the day, trauma
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Random quote of the day:

“That’s one of the most ruthless lessons trauma teaches you: You are not in charge. All you can control is your reaction to whatever grenades the demented universe rolls in your path. Beginning with whether you get out of bed.”

—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021

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Mon 10 Jun 2024

Time

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“Time, as we know, like the sea, is a force and a creature all of its own. We can stop neither of them. We stand on the sand, watching as the days become years, as the line made by the tide disappears, as the hungry waves devour the borderline that wants to find the land. People, places, experiences and the act of living a life, our days come together and we find we have grown; we are being carried in time’s salty course.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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Tue 28 May 2024

Memories

Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“All we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

—Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

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Thu 23 May 2024

Life

Posted by PJ under life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.”

—Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior

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Mon 20 May 2024

Mountain

Posted by PJ under contemplation, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.”

—Li Po (China, 701-762) (tr. Sam Hamill)

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Tue 14 May 2024

Fact

Posted by PJ under facts, poetry, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

—Robert Graves, The White Goddess

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Wed 6 Mar 2024

Timeless

Posted by PJ under growing up, quote of the day, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“This is the only real maturity there is: the maturity of struggling beyond the physical world and discovering that you’re also at home somewhere else. As for immaturity, that’s when we grow old and empty because we’ve missed the opportunities life always brings for making conscious contact with the timeless.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Wed 28 Feb 2024

Dragons

Posted by PJ under adults, children, dragons, fantasy, freedom, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.”

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Mon 26 Feb 2024

Poverty

Posted by PJ under poverty, quote of the day, the rich
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Random quote of the day:

“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”

—Walter Bagehot, ”The Waverly Novels,” The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, Vol. III

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