Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
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Quote for Today: Ray LaMontagne
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind Could it be that I am finally learnin'? ―Ray LaMontagne, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise, "Old Before My Time" Public … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ray LaMontagne
Quote for Today: Beau Taplin
In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes. I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind … Continue reading Quote for Today: Beau Taplin
Quote for Today: Rainier Maria Rilke
We are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rainier Maria Rilke
Quote for Today: Jacquetta Hawkes
There is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jacquetta Hawkes
Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with your past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself … Continue reading Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
Quote for Today: H. R. Ellis Davidson
The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty or terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment of the men of one particular age or civilization on the mysteries of human existence and the human mind, their model for social behaviour, and … Continue reading Quote for Today: H. R. Ellis Davidson
