Quote for Today: Debasish Mridha
Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. ― Debasish Mridha
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what …
The Journey Within: Expectation by Katherine McDaniel
Journeys are often described as physical experiences, but they involve our internal world too. Does our mind determine our journey? Anyone who has undertaken a long journey can attest that many of the …
Quote for Today: Pat Conroy
Her secret, we would discover, was that once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind …
Quote for Today: Rose Kennedy
It has been said, “time heals all wounds.” I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain …
Quote for Today: Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and …
Quote for Today: Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has …
Quote for Today: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. …
Moments from Other Lives: Thoughts on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Are you attracted to characters and story lines that surprise you? Life doesn’t always make sense and neither does art. Many literary works are peopled with stereotypes and follow formulae which …
Quote for Today: H.G. Wells
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the …