Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break …
For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break …
We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to …
By identifying with a craving (‘I want this,” “don’t want’ that”), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it …
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our …
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign …