Fri 27 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the deep within, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself…â€
—André Gide, Les Nourritures Terrestres
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Thu 26 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under acceptance, depression, happiness, healing, hope, the path, what the living do
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Happiness an illusion we kid ourselves about on a regular basis.
Oh yes, it exists, in bubbles and baubles—like pearls on a string, sometimes many pearls together, sometimes stretched out with mundane filler or truly ugly bits and bobs.
But as a permanent state, no. Happiness is always in flux. It’s not something we can achieve and hold onto if we just cultivate the right attitude of mind. I don’t care how much positive thinking you try to stream through your existence, life will always throw something in your way that trips you up. The power of positive thinking is a good thing, a great thing even, but there are also times when it’s just another form of denial.
Or narcissism: “The world revolves around me and I control all its forces with my Powerful, Positive Mind.†Then it becomes something of a cult, and those are never good.
Happy times are blessings that shouldn’t be taken for granted, but the pendulum always swings the other way. We have to accept that and walk through the shadows.
I try to cultivate an attitude of hopeful acceptance: accepting that the pendulum has swung into a dark place, but hoping that if I go through the dark and allow myself to fully experience it without telling myself I don’t feel it, without beating myself up with toxic “shoulds,†without haranguing myself about my bootstraps and their potential lift, that eventually I will walk through and emerge into light.
There isn’t any easier path. And telling people to cheer up when they’re struggling is another form of toxicity. I will say, in my experience, that the path of walking the shadows can be a peculiarly satisfying path—if you survive it. You walk, you survive, you’re ready to start again. It isn’t easy, and it isn’t a straight path, and hard not to lose your way and head in the wrong direction. But even the wrong direction can be part of the path.
Nothing puritanical here. I’m not talking about clinical depression. Everybody needs help sometimes and there is no shame in asking for it. Only fools—as intransigent as the “always positive thinking†fools—believe they can do it all on their own.
I’m trying to convince myself of that even as I write this.
I have faith in sunshine, though. I catch its faint glint far down the tunnel and believe I am heading in the right direction.
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirits, that which abides
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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.â€
—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
Posted by PJ under greed, money, quote of the day
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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.â€
—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
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Tue 17 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under art, conscious and subconscious, creativity
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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.â€
—E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under avoidance, quote of the day, the wound
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Random quote of the day:
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.â€
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. Richard Zenith)
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Fri 13 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under children, intelligence, quote of the day
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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?â€
—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994
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Thu 12 Jul 2018
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.â€
—Christopher Poindexter, “The blooming of madnessâ€
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Wed 11 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, wanting, writers, writing
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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.â€
—Chris Offutt, interviewed by Rob Trucks, Glimmer Train, Issue 5, Summer 1992
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Tue 10 Jul 2018
Posted by PJ under ideals and idealism, quote of the day
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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.â€
—Oscar Levant, Humoresque
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