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Tue 21 Mar 2023

Candles

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

“The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from the surrounding darkness.

—Carson McCullers, “The Orphanage,” Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

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Thu 16 Mar 2023

Phillis

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, poetry, quote of the day, racism, slavery
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Random quote of the day:

“Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
Their colour is a diabolic die.
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

—Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” 1773

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Tue 14 Mar 2023

Dawn

Posted by PJ under health, morning, quote of the day, sleep
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Random quote of the day:

“DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Mon 13 Mar 2023

Geometry

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

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

—Gustav Flaubert, letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853

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Wed 8 Mar 2023

Visible

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“A true work of art in no way depends for its justification on its seeming connections with the place that many call the real world and that I call the visible world.

—Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows

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Mon 6 Mar 2023

Center

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, soul, the center, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

―Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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Wed 1 Mar 2023

Love

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

“Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.”

—Reverend Bernice B. King, The Atlantic, March 1, 2018

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Mon 27 Feb 2023

Educate

Posted by PJ under brain, children, education, hearts, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

—Dalai Lama, Twitterfeed, December 5, 2011

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Wed 22 Feb 2023

Steady

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

“When there is nothing else, when all the world has gone mad, you recite poetry to hold things together, to give life order and meaning. The world is shaking, but poetry is steady.

—Aster Glenn Gray, Honeytrap

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Tue 21 Feb 2023

Darkness

Posted by PJ under darkness, enlightenment, quote of the day, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

—C.G. Jung, “The Philosophical Tree,” Alchemical Studies, Vol. 13

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