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Tue 8 May 2018

Learnin’

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

“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”

—Nina Simone, “You’ve Got To Learn”

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Mon 7 May 2018

Craftsman

Posted by PJ under art, books, craft, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

—Jean de La Bruyère, Characters

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Fri 4 May 2018

Wearying

Posted by PJ under boredom, desire, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.”

—Samuel Butler, Characters and Passages from Note-Books

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Thu 3 May 2018

Other Realms

Posted by PJ under experience, otherworld, quote of the day, sacredness
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Random quote of the day:

“A person generally needs to find his/her own way to connections with the Other Realms. A person cannot really be instructed into experiencing the sacred. It must come from within.”

—Dennis Gaffin, Running With the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion

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Wed 2 May 2018

Breaking

Posted by PJ under darkness, poetry, quote of the day, the path, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“The heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.”

—Stanley Kunitz, “The Testing-Tree”

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Tue 1 May 2018

Being

Posted by PJ under existence, mysteries, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are all—men, stars, flowers, birds—assigned to the same cast, rehearsing for the same inexplicable drama. We all have a mystery in common—the mystery of being.”

—Abraham J. Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

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Mon 30 Apr 2018

Higher

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

—William Faulkner, The Paris Review, Issue 12, Spring 1956

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Tue 24 Apr 2018

Right…or wrong

Posted by PJ under patriotism, politics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“’My country right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”

—G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant

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Mon 23 Apr 2018

Fyodor

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

“It’s easier for a Russian to be an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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Thu 19 Apr 2018

Beauty

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

“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new.”

—St. Augustine, Confessions (tr. Henry Chadwick)

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