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Mon 1 Mar 2021

Student

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

“You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you’re in union,
you don’t have to fear
that you’ll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.
Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.”

—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (tr. Coleman Barks)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 2 Feb 2021

Nameless

Posted by PJ under desire, names, quote of the day, that which abides, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (tr. by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 12 Jan 2021

Underlands

Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, quote of the day, the deep within, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“We all carry underlands within us, but only rarely acknowledge their existence.”

—Robert McFarlane, “What lies beneath: Robert McFarlane travels ‘Underland,’” The Guardian, April 20, 2019

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 21 Dec 2020

Summer

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

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

—Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa,” The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Mon 4 May 2020

Roots

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, the deep within, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“I believe that art puts down its roots into the deepest hiding places of our nature and that its action is akin to the action of certain delving plants, comfrey for instance, whose roots can penetrate far into the subsoil and unlock nutrients that would otherwise lie out of reach of shallower bedding plants.”

—Jeanette Winterson, “Writer, Reader, Words,” Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 24 Oct 2019

Meaning

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“Human beings make meaning out of their existences. They pull purpose and direction out of their lives. Maybe that universal human tendency is based on delusion; maybe it’s based on a deeper wisdom than our conscious minds understand.”

—Christine Wicker, Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead

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Fri 2 Aug 2019

Inside

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Random quote of the day:

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want….We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”

—Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 11 (tr. Stephen Mitchell)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 23 Jul 2019

Inside

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Random quote of the day:

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

—José Saramago, Blindness

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Wed 27 Mar 2019

Crazy

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, the deep within, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.”

—John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist

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Fri 1 Mar 2019

The essential thing

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, that which abides, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet—a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things.”

—Bertrand Russell, letter to Colette O’Niel, July 5, 1918

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