The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd--The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
Consciousness
Quote for Today: Ian Somerhalder
Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see. ―Ian Somerhalder Image © Chris Potter with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
But that long day ends at last; yields to the night-time of the flood. And, just as the waters of the ocean come flooding, darkening over the pools, so over George and the others in sleep come the waters of that other ocean; that consciousness which is no one in particular but which contains everyone and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
Quote for Today: Charles Lindbergh
For unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world. My body requires no attention. It's not hungry. It's neither warm … Continue reading Quote for Today: Charles Lindbergh
Quote for Today: Egon Schiele
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. ―Egon Schiele
Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
