Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point … Continue reading Quote for Today: Amy Neftzger
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Quote for Today: Rabindranath Tagore
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rabindranath Tagore
Quote for Today: Marie-Louise von Franz
If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality. ―Marie-Louise von Franz Image: The Anunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898
Quote for Today: Jean-Paul Sartre
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, only notes, a myriad of tiny jolts. They know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them and destroys them without even giving them time to recuperate and exist for themselves. They race, they press forward, they strike me a sharp blow in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jean-Paul Sartre
Quote for Today: Epes Sargent
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. -Epes Sargent Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing … Continue reading Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
Quote for Today: Paul Auster
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paul Auster
