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Tue 12 Dec 2023

Knowledge

Posted by PJ under longing, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“Always we want to learn from the outside, from absorbing other people’s knowledge. It’s safer that way. The trouble is that it’s always other people’s knowledge. We already have everything we need to know, in the darkness inside ourselves. The longing is what turns us inside out until we find the sun and the moon and stars inside.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom 

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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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Tue 4 Oct 2022

Treasure

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

“Loving oneself isn’t hard when you understand who and what yourself is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It’s so beyond all of those things and it’s what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

—Phylicia Rashad, YouTube interview with Cherise Nicole (CNikky.com/EURWeb), January 15, 2013

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Tue 21 Jun 2022

Sadness

Posted by PJ under anxiety, lessons learned, quote of the day, sorrow, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“So you must not be frightened…if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you?”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. M. D. Herter Norton)

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Mon 25 Apr 2022

Hades

Posted by PJ under jung, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”

—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW12

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Thu 14 Oct 2021

Q and A

Posted by PJ under questions and answers, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“There is never an answer to the great question of life and death, unless it is my answer or yours. Because ultimately it isn’t a question that is addressed, but a person. Our whole being has to be answered. At that point, both question and answer disappear, like hunger after a good meal.”

—Stephen Mitchell, Introduction to The Book of Job

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Wed 22 Sep 2021

Ourselves

Posted by PJ under becoming, destiny, quote of the day, solitude, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song—but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.”

—Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 13, 1971

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Mon 28 Jun 2021

Source

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

“The sin of the ego is to wish to sever itself from its own source; its tragedy is that it sometimes succeeds.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Thu 27 May 2021

Drag

Posted by PJ under art, drag, gay, quote of the day, sacredness, sanctuary, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“The performance art of drag is a sacrament, performed in the spaces that have been sanctuaries to so many—Gay nightclubs and bars….Drag is about our shifting fluid selves and about expressing something within ourselves that is true and holy and important.”

—Rev. Caitlin S. Cotter, “Sun in Drag” Sermon, June 18, 2017, Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

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Fri 9 Apr 2021

Whirling

Posted by PJ under gods, hearts, prayers, quote of the day, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“You must descend from
your head into your heart.
At present your thoughts of God
are in your head. And God Himself is,
as it were, outside you, and
so your prayer and other spiritual
exercises
remain exterior. Whilst you are still
in your head,
thoughts will not easily be subdued but
will always be whirling about, like snow
in winter or
clouds of mosquitoes in summer.

—St. Theophan the Recluse, in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, ed. Roger Housden

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