Archive for October, 2022

Random quote of the day:

“Having developed a sense of trust in oneself, slowly that expands its expression outward, and the world becomes a friendly world rather than a hostile world. You could say that you have changed the world: you have become the king or queen of the universe. On the other hand, you can’t quite say that, because the world has come towards you, to return your friendship.

—Chögyam Trungpa, The Teacup & The Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet

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Random quote of the day:

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

—Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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Random quote of the day:

“You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

―Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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Random quote of the day:

“People will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. Faith is as powerful a force as science…but far more dangerous.

—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

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Random quote of the day:

“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

—Alvin Ailey, https://www.alvinailey.org/support/still-we-dance

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Random quote of the day:

“I prefer to see hoaxing as a daimonic quality inherent in, and continuous with, anomalous events—which are neither “genuine” nor “fake” but, in a deeper sense, both.

—Patrick Harper, Daimonic Reality

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Random quote of the day:

“Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 5 (tr. Brooks Haxton)

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Random quote of the day:

“Loving oneself isn’t hard when you understand who and what yourself is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It’s so beyond all of those things and it’s what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

—Phylicia Rashad, YouTube interview with Cherise Nicole (CNikky.com/EURWeb), January 15, 2013

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Random quote of the day:

“The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. Irony is always scratching your tired ass, whatever way you look at it, I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”

—Jim Harrison, Conversations With Jim Harrison, ed. Robert DeMott

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