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Thu 20 Apr 2023

Secrets

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

“Hallelujah: only a songwriter believes
the best way into a lover’s heart is to tell you
all your secrets in public.”

—Shayla Lawson, “Songs for Women”

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Wed 19 Apr 2023

Bloom

Posted by PJ under attention, quote of the day, roses
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Random quote of the day:

The rose is without ‘why’; it blooms simply because it blooms.
It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

—Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer (Cherubinischer Wandersmann)

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Tue 18 Apr 2023

Guessing

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

“…for he conducted his life as everyone does—by guessing at the future.

—Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes

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Mon 17 Apr 2023

Dreams

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, gods, prayers, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us?

—Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla [Mist]

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Thu 13 Apr 2023

Present

Posted by PJ under future, quote of the day, the past, the present
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Random quote of the day:

“You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

―Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

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Wed 12 Apr 2023

Solitude

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

“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

—Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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Mon 10 Apr 2023

Love

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

“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

—Edward Abbey, Down the River

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Wed 5 Apr 2023

Memory

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

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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Tue 4 Apr 2023

Change

Posted by PJ under censorship, change, conversations, quote of the day, stories, words
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Random quote of the day:

“The key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship. That’s why I want people to understand what the words we use—and the stories we tell—are really about.

—Jay-Z, Decoded

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Mon 3 Apr 2023

Oracles

Posted by PJ under gods, language, oracles, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Oracles are never what they seem. For oracles to be oracles they have to contain something hidden. The more you think you understand them the less you probably do. That’s where the danger lies. As ancient Greeks said, the words spoken by oracles are like seeds. They contain a fullness, a pregnancy of meaning, dimensions of relevance that only become apparent with time. Human language is like a splinter: fragmented, isolated, sticking out in one direction. But the language of the gods is full of surprises that surround you from all directions and jump out on you from behind.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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