Fri 10 Nov 2023
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Random quote of the day:
“What everyone ignores—that’s where wisdom lies.”
—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom
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Tue 19 Sep 2023
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Random quote of the day:
“It’s such a perfect arrangement for wisdom to hide away in death. Everyone runs from death so everyone runs away from wisdom, except for those who are willing to pay the price and go against the stream.”
—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom
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Tue 29 Aug 2023
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sacredness, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:
“Wisdom sits in places.”
—Apache proverb
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Tue 11 May 2021
Posted by PJ under crone, ideas, journals, wisdom, writing
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I’ve been slowly going through old paper journals to purge the more embarrassing entries. This is quite a masochistic practice so I can only do it a little bit at a time. Although I don’t want to completely throw these journals—they are a record of my life—I don’t want some of that crap to live on. The whiny bits. The rune/Tarot readings with whiny questions. The really, really bad poetry.
So I came across an idea and outlines from a 1991 journal re: a novel I had wanted to write about The Crone and had myself a good laugh. As if I had a clue. I still don’t have a clue but because I realize I don’t have a clue I may be further along on making something of that idea. The requisite clue isn’t about wisdom, it’s about knowing that you don’t have wisdom, just the accumulation of experience, and that anyone who claims to be wise probably isn’t.
But this was also an illustration of how some ideas can be worked with almost immediately but others have very long gestations. I once heard Louise Erdrich talking about this in an interview, how sometimes she won’t be able to work on an idea until twenty years down the line because when she got the original idea she wasn’t yet ready for it. I thought I understood at the time, but I really understand it now. (Or, maybe, I just have the illusion of understanding.)
I may be able to write this idea now. I’ve been poking at a new form of it recently and it actually seems to be moving. We’ll see. It’s nice to be writing but I do wish one of these competing ideas would gel so that I’m not constantly circling and not making real progress. Survival of the fittest when it comes to competing ideas. Being ready to write them. This crone seems to be the one with the most juice. Crone willing, she’ll win the race.
Like I said, we’ll see.
Wed 7 Apr 2021
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Random quote of the day:
“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.â€
—Czeslaw Milosz, The Paris Review, Issue 133, Winter 1994
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Tue 10 Oct 2017
Posted by PJ under nonsense, quote of the day, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:
“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.â€
—Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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Wed 13 Sep 2017
Posted by PJ under intelligence, quote of the day, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:
“There is absolutely zero correlation between intelligence and wisdom.â€
—Junot Diaz, interview, National Public Radio, September 11, 2012
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Wed 16 Nov 2016
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Random quote of the day:
“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
—Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,†The Chameleon, December 1894
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Mon 16 Feb 2015
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Random quote of the day:
“The past was survival of the fittest. The future will be survival of the wisest.”
—Deepak Chopra, interview, KCAL News, October 25, 2010
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Tue 16 Sep 2014
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, simplicity, what the living do, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:
“I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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