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Wed 8 Jun 2022

Loss

Posted by PJ under death, grief, quote of the day, things
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Random quote of the day:

“The paradoxical effect of losing a loved one is that their sudden absence can become a feverish comment on that which remains. That which remains rises in time from the dark with a burning physicality—a luminous super-presence—as we acquaint ourselves with this new and different world. In loss things—both animate and inanimate—take on an added intensity and meaning.”

—Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files, July 2020

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Tue 7 Jun 2022

Paradox

Posted by PJ under paradox, quote of the day, religion, spirituality
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Random quote of the day:

“Oddly enough the paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions, while uniformity of meaning is a sign of weakness. Hence a religion becomes inwardly impoverished when it loses or waters down its paradoxes; but their multiplication enriches because only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Non-ambiguity and non-contradiction are one-sided and thus unsuited to express the incomprehensible.”

—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (tr. Gerhard Adler & RFC Hull)

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Fri 3 Jun 2022

Story

Posted by PJ under characters, organic writing, quote of the day, stories, writers
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Random quote of the day:

“That Bible salesman character [Flannery O’Connor] had created from the whole cloth of her imagination had broken free from her control and did exactly what the story demanded he do. That’s a magic moment in fiction, I tell my students. Trust the accidents, I tell them. A story is a story is a story. Only the story counts, I tell my students.”

—Chuck Kinder, Last Mountain Dancer

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Thu 2 Jun 2022

True

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

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

—Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Wed 1 Jun 2022

Sorrows

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

“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

—Seneca, “Consolation to Helvia” (his mother), A. D. 41

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