From Cormac McCarthy: “The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/26/24”
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Quote of the day 06/25/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the worldContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/25/24”
Quote of the day 06/23/24
From Zhuangzi: “Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.”
Quote of the day 05/30/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “Your purpose is to be yourself. You don’t have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.”
Quote of the day 05/24/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “A man who, as a physical being, is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
Quote of the day 05/23/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
Quote of the day 05/20/24
From Alan Watts: “Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.”
Quote of the day 05/17/24
From Alan Watts: “A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
Quote of the day 05/16/24
From Alan Watts: “And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
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