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Tue 7 Jun 2022

Paradox

Posted by PJ under paradox, quote of the day, religion, spirituality
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Random quote of the day:

“Oddly enough the paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions, while uniformity of meaning is a sign of weakness. Hence a religion becomes inwardly impoverished when it loses or waters down its paradoxes; but their multiplication enriches because only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Non-ambiguity and non-contradiction are one-sided and thus unsuited to express the incomprehensible.”

—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (tr. Gerhard Adler & RFC Hull)

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Fri 3 Jun 2022

Story

Posted by PJ under characters, organic writing, quote of the day, stories, writers
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Random quote of the day:

“That Bible salesman character [Flannery O’Connor] had created from the whole cloth of her imagination had broken free from her control and did exactly what the story demanded he do. That’s a magic moment in fiction, I tell my students. Trust the accidents, I tell them. A story is a story is a story. Only the story counts, I tell my students.”

—Chuck Kinder, Last Mountain Dancer

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Thu 2 Jun 2022

True

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, self-esteem, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

—Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Wed 1 Jun 2022

Sorrows

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

“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

—Seneca, “Consolation to Helvia” (his mother), A. D. 41

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Fri 27 May 2022

Illusions

Posted by PJ under growing up, illusion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I am growing up…I am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones.”

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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Wed 25 May 2022

Universe

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

“I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand; and the prospect hence is infinite.”

—Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852

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Tue 24 May 2022

Somebody

Posted by PJ under community, friends, outsider, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river, make me guess the names of birds, or challenge me to count the silvery fish in a school, there was nothing for me to do. Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn’t somebody myself.”

―Michael Dorris, Sees Behind Trees

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Mon 23 May 2022

Creative

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

“The creative spirit creates with whatever materials are present. With food, with children, with building blocks, with speech, with thoughts, with pigment, with an umbrella, or a wineglass, or a torch.”

—M. C. Richards, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

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Fri 20 May 2022

Death

Posted by PJ under death, gods, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Death is the only God who loves not gifts and cares not for sacrifices or libation, who has no altars and receives no hymns.”

—Aeschylus, Niobe

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Wed 18 May 2022

Grief

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Random quote of the day:

“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”

—Elizabeth Gilbert, Instagram, June 6, 2018

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