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Fri 30 May 2014

Ghosts of hunger

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

“Hunger was more powerful than sorrow.”

—Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Canto 33, Line 7
(tr. Victoria Kirkham)

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Thu 29 May 2014

Motives for living

Posted by PJ under goals, journeys, meaning, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“What’s the point of being alive unless there is a progress, a journey, and somewhere, at some point, an end? What else other than motivation makes us really live, the sense that this is a chance we must use, and now?”

—Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

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Wed 28 May 2014

An ever-fixed mark

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

“The great danger is to let oneself be monopolized by a fixed idea.”

—André Gide, La Séquestrée de Poitiers

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Thu 22 May 2014

Dreams of lucidity

Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day: 

“Once he has reached the absurd and tries to live accordingly, a man always perceives that consciousness is the hardest thing in the world to maintain. Circumstances are almost always against it. He must live his lucidity in a world where dispersion is the rule.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Wed 21 May 2014

Personhood

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

“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”

—Desmond Tutu, address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Sept. 7, 1986

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Tue 20 May 2014

Touch

Posted by PJ under healing, imagination, quote of the day, touch
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Random quote of the day:

“What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.”

—Dion Fortune, Principles of Esoteric Healing

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Mon 19 May 2014

Pro

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

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.”

—Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

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Fri 16 May 2014

The inner man

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

“Fate will have it—and this has always been the case with me—that all the ‘outer’ aspects of my life should be accidental. Only what is interior has proved to have substance and a determining value. As a result, all memory of outer events has faded, and perhaps these ‘outer’ experiences were never so very essential anyhow, or were so only in that they coincided with phases of my inner development.”

—Carl Jung, letter to Aniela Jaffé, quoted in the Introduction to Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Thu 15 May 2014

Make your own way

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

“However much you love other human beings, you cannot attain enlightenment on their behalf; they must find their own way, make their own metaphor, and engage in their own realizing.”

—Caitlin and John Matthews, Walkers Between the Worlds

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Wed 14 May 2014

Public piracy

Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, pirates, politics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

—H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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