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Tue 12 Dec 2023

Knowledge

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

“Always we want to learn from the outside, from absorbing other people’s knowledge. It’s safer that way. The trouble is that it’s always other people’s knowledge. We already have everything we need to know, in the darkness inside ourselves. The longing is what turns us inside out until we find the sun and the moon and stars inside.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 26 Jun 2023

Black Holes

Posted by PJ under nothingness, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the past, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“Black holes out there in the universe are nothing compared to the black holes in our own past. Those holes are much more than ordinary gaps. They have the power to destroy our ideas about ourselves and bring us face to face with nothingness.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 16 Jun 2022

Growing

Posted by PJ under growth, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it’s to do the inner work they stimulate.”

—Wally (Famous) Amos, Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton

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Mon 25 Apr 2022

Hades

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

“The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”

—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW12

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Thu 24 Feb 2022

Alone

Posted by PJ under alone, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are?”

—Tananarive Due, My Soul to Keep

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Thu 14 Oct 2021

Q and A

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

“There is never an answer to the great question of life and death, unless it is my answer or yours. Because ultimately it isn’t a question that is addressed, but a person. Our whole being has to be answered. At that point, both question and answer disappear, like hunger after a good meal.”

—Stephen Mitchell, Introduction to The Book of Job

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Mon 20 Sep 2021

Truths

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, self-knowledge, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Two truths approach each other. One comes from inside, the
        other from outside,
And where they meet we have a chance to catch sight of ourselves.”

—Tomas Tranströmer, “Preludes” (tr. Robert Bly)

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Tue 4 May 2021

Renounce

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838”

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Tue 30 Mar 2021

Audre

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, self-esteem, self-knowledge, stereotypes
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Random quote of the day:

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

―Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s,” address for the Malcolm X weekend, February 1982, Harvard University

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Thu 8 Oct 2020

Lucille

Posted by PJ under aging, change, growth, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me”

―Lucille Clifton, i am running into a new year

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