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Fri 29 May 2015

Mysterioso

Posted by PJ under knowledge, mysteries, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The real trick is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.”

—Fred Alan Wolf, Foreword, Do You Quantum Think? by Dianne Collins

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Thu 28 May 2015

Walkabout

Posted by PJ under longevity, quote of the day, slowing down, walking
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Random quote of the day:

“Walking takes longer…than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who’s always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.”

—Edward Abbey, “Walking,” The Journey Home

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Tue 26 May 2015

No single thing abides

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

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras (tr. Bodhipaksa)

This is widely misquoted as “A single event can awaken within us a stranger…” To read a fascination analysis of the zen of misquoting, changing meanings, and translations, see this post.

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Fri 22 May 2015

Beat of feet

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

“A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, February 1902 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Thu 21 May 2015

Coincidence?

Posted by PJ under magic, quote of the day, synchronicity
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Random quote of the day: 

“I don’t believe in magic, but I believe in interpreting coincidence exactly the way you want to.”

—Sherman Alexie, Twitterfeed, 2/29/12

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Tue 19 May 2015

Humane thinking

Posted by PJ under health, human nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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Mon 18 May 2015

Living myths

Posted by PJ under being human, myth, reality, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

—Robert Anton Wilson

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Fri 15 May 2015

Pragmatic

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

“Pragmatism is willing to take anything, to follow either logic or the senses, and to count the humblest and most personal experiences. She will count mystical experiences if they have practical consequences. She will take a God who lives in the very dirt of private fact—if that should seem a likely place to find him. Her only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience’s demands, nothing being omitted.”

—William James, Pragmatism

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Thu 14 May 2015

Black and white

Posted by PJ under aphorisms, balance, contradictions, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

—George Santayana, “Intuitive Morality,” Little Essays

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Wed 13 May 2015

The untold story

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

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road

(This one is widely misattributed to Maya Angelou.) (Which is kind of ironic if you consider the content of the quote.)

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