Tue 24 Jul 2018

Spiritu

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Random quote of the day:

“Some spirits are indeed figments of the human imagination, yet there are others who have been around much longer than human beings. Among spirits there is a vast hierarchy, from simple energy forms and nature spirits to angelic and higher forms of divine and galactic intelligence. These may be terrestrial or celestial, intimately associated with human life or not, but all are aspects of the one Universal Being, conceived of as the totality, inner and outer, or as its creator.”

—Rab Wilkie, “Spirited Imagination: Ways of approaching the shaman’s world,” in Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters, eds. David Young and Jean-Guy Goulet

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Thu 19 Jul 2018

Not the good we are seeking

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Random quote of the day:

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

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Tue 17 Jul 2018

Let down the bucket

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Random quote of the day:

“In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.”

—E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

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Mon 16 Jul 2018

Wounded

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Random quote of the day:

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”

—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. Richard Zenith)

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Fri 13 Jul 2018

Where are they now?

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Random quote of the day:

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Thu 12 Jul 2018

Rescue

Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day, rescue
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Random quote of the day:

“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

—Christopher Poindexter, “The blooming of madness”

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Wed 11 Jul 2018

Wanting it

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Random quote of the day:

“You have to read and write on a daily basis. You have to be utterly vulnerable on the page, and utterly ruthless in revision. To write something good, you have to want it so bad that nothing else matters.”

—Chris Offutt, interviewed by Rob Trucks, Glimmer Train, Issue 5, Summer 1992

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Tue 10 Jul 2018

Idealism

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Random quote of the day:

“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts. Idealism is a luxury for the very young.”

—Oscar Levant, Humoresque

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Thu 5 Jul 2018

Learned

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Random quote of the day:

“When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.”

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life

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Tue 3 Jul 2018

Kindness

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Random quote of the day:

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

—Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness and Compassion

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