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Wed 22 Nov 2017

Hustler-in-chief

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

“Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.”

—William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 18 Jul 2017

Rescue

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, rescue, self-knowledge, self-reliance, the path
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Random quote of the day:

“No one saves us but ourselves,
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path:
Buddhas merely teach the way.”

—Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada, tr. Paul Carus

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 11 May 2017

Discovery

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

“I don’t think people read poetry because they’re interested in the poet. I think they read poetry because they’re interested in themselves….I read poetry to discover things about myself…”

—Billy Collins, interview, Powell’s Book Blog, October 10, 2006

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 5 Apr 2017

Deception

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

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 30 Nov 2016

Going deep

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

“Wherever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fright, and many run away….The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 28 Jan 2016

Outside

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

“I have neither the desire nor the capacity to stand outside myself and observe my fate in a truly objective way. I would commit the familiar autobiographical mistake either of weaving an illusion about how it ought to have been, or of writing an apologia pro vita sua. In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, tr. Clara and Richard Winston

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 29 Sep 2015

Becoming

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

“Practice any art…no matter how well or badly, not to get money or fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, letter to Xavier high school students, 2006

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Wed 22 Apr 2015

Hidden selves

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

“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you.”

—Lillian Hellman, Pentimento: A Book of Portraits

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Mon 22 Dec 2014

Own your bone

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

“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good—be good for something.”

—Henry David Thoreau, letter to Harrison Blake, March 27, 1848

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Wed 20 Aug 2014

Pickled punks

Posted by PJ under art, ego, passion, quote of the day, self-knowledge, truth, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

—D.H. Lawrence, “Escape”

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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