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Tue 8 Jan 2019

Sides

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

“I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.”

—Niels Bohr, remarks after Solvay Conference of 1927, quoted in Physics and Beyond by Werner Heisenberg

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Mon 7 Jan 2019

Bored

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

“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”

—Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

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Fri 4 Jan 2019

Birds

Posted by PJ under birds, mysteries, quote of the day, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“Getting older and older, I still stand here at this window, watching as if never having watched anything like it before—the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on the cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling through fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it—as if from the other side of a mirror—snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.”

—Frederick Franck, “Behind the Mask,” Parabola, Volume 20, Number 2: 1995

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Thu 3 Jan 2019

Publishing

Posted by PJ under publishing, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Publishing a book is often very much like being put on trial for some offense which is quite other than the one you know in your heart you’ve committed.”

—Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

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Wed 2 Jan 2019

Present

Posted by PJ under goddesses, in the moment, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The present moment is a powerful goddess.”

—attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Fri 21 Dec 2018

Be here now

Posted by PJ under change, in the moment, mindfulness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It turns out that being present is a courageous act. It involves discerning what we cannot change and changing what we can. We cannot change other people or the forces that act on us—we cannot change the relentless force of change. But we can change the quality of our presence here and now. We can turn away from the old thoughts, pull ourselves out of the deep groove of habit, and be here now.”

—Tracy Cochran, “Life Preserver,” tracycochran.org, April 30, 2014

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE. THE QUOTE OF THE DAY WILL BE ON VACATION UNTIL JANUARY 2.

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Thu 20 Dec 2018

Truths

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

“A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.”

—Richard Feynman, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965

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Wed 19 Dec 2018

The Gift

Posted by PJ under gifts, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I didn’t want to become a writer—it just happened. It’s a kind of gift, you know, from the heavens.”

—Haruki Murakami, The Paris Review Interviews, IV

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Tue 18 Dec 2018

Suffering

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, quote of the day, suffering, unknown
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Random quote of the day:

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palms Leaves, Journals 1962-1966 (tr. Mobi Warren)

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Mon 17 Dec 2018

Intellectual

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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1935-42

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