Thu 15 Aug 2024

Ox

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Random quote of the day:

“If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage…If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

—The Dhammapada, Yammakavagga: “The Pairs” (Verses 1-20) (Tr. F. Max Müller)

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Thu 8 Aug 2024

Flame

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

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”

–Albert Schweitzer, Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, tr. Erica Anderson

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Mon 15 Jul 2024

Bleeding

Posted by PJ under anger, conflict, contradictions, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The ‘bleeding hearts’ who want love without anger, relationship without conflict, harmony without contradictions, are forced to create an illusory world of unambivalent love.…It is not accidental that such perfect persons (who never question their own motives or suspect their hidden ideology or self-interest) make others feel tainted and guilty. Every sentimental sermon is served with a side-dish of guilt. In their presence, honest doubt is named cynicism, anger is called evil, and ambivalence is castigated as craziness.”

—Sam Keen, The Passionate Life

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Wed 12 Jun 2024

Trauma

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Random quote of the day:

“That’s one of the most ruthless lessons trauma teaches you: You are not in charge. All you can control is your reaction to whatever grenades the demented universe rolls in your path. Beginning with whether you get out of bed.”

—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021

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Mon 10 Jun 2024

Time

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Random quote of the day:

“Time, as we know, like the sea, is a force and a creature all of its own. We can stop neither of them. We stand on the sand, watching as the days become years, as the line made by the tide disappears, as the hungry waves devour the borderline that wants to find the land. People, places, experiences and the act of living a life, our days come together and we find we have grown; we are being carried in time’s salty course.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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Tue 28 May 2024

Memories

Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“All we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

—Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

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Thu 23 May 2024

Life

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

“There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.”

—Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior

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Mon 20 May 2024

Mountain

Posted by PJ under contemplation, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.”

—Li Po (China, 701-762) (tr. Sam Hamill)

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Thu 16 May 2024

Spirit

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Random quote of the day:

“The force of spirit is only as great as its expression, its depth only as deep as it dares to spread out and lose itself in its display.”

—G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (tr. Michael Inwood)

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Tue 14 May 2024

Fact

Posted by PJ under facts, poetry, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

—Robert Graves, The White Goddess

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