If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. --Rumi Public Domain Image via PxHere
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Quote for Today: Walter Farley
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are … Continue reading Quote for Today: Walter Farley
Quote for Today: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit … Continue reading Quote for Today: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Quote for Today: Chaim Potok
In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Chaim Potok
Quote for Today: Wilkie Collins
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wilkie Collins
Quote for Today: Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved … Continue reading Quote for Today: Edgar Allan Poe
Quote for Today: Jorge Luis Borges
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the Paraná, but that striped, Asiatic, royal tiger, that can only be faced by a man of war, on a castle atop an elephant. I used … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jorge Luis Borges
On Unlocking Creativity, Ideas as Viruses: Robin Young Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert
The way that I've always thought about creativity is that ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don't have a form but they have a will, and all they want is to be made manifest and they circle the world looking for human collaborators to work with. I'm feeling poorly today due to Celiac Disease and … Continue reading On Unlocking Creativity, Ideas as Viruses: Robin Young Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert
Building Creative Resilience: Strategies for Cultivating Enchantment
Adversity and boredom can strip away our joy and creativity. Can a sense of enchantment improve our resilience? Boredom © Jae with CCLicenseHave you ever felt as if you were missing something or merely going through the motions of living? Sometimes this happens as a result of a catastrophe in our lives, but it can sneak … Continue reading Building Creative Resilience: Strategies for Cultivating Enchantment
Quote for Today: D.H. Lawrence
It is easy to see why each man kills the things he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it... To try to know a living being is to try to suck the life out of that being. The temptation of the vampire fiend is this knowledge. The desirous consciousness, the spirit, is … Continue reading Quote for Today: D.H. Lawrence