Language is a map that enables us to navigate the labyrinth of reality. But the map is not the territory, no matter how much we use it.
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ― John Keats
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. " ― Rachel Naomi Remen Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.” ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
"I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism." - General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant,1935
"Belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind." Robert Oxton Bolton
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches ... appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
"Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.” ― Albert Einstein Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.” ― Fiona Apple Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
" Sleep To Dream " I tell you how I feel, but you don't care I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare You say love is a hell you cannot bear And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care I got my feet on the ground And I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds And you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviantways So don't forget what I told you Don't come around, I got my own hell toraise I have never been so insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride First you run like a fool just to be at my side And now you run like a food But you just run to hide, and I can't abide I got my feet on the ground And I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds And you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviantways So don't forget what I told you Don't come around, I got my own hell toraise Don't make it a big deal, don't be so sensitive We're not playing a game anymore You don't have to be so defensive Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain Don't even show me your face, 'cuz it's a crying shame Just go back to the rock from under which you came Take the sorrow you gave and all the stakes you claim - And don't forget the blame I got my feet on the ground And I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds And you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviantways So don't forget what I told you Don't come around, I got my own hell to raise - Fiona Apple
“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.” ― Haruki Murakami
"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it." - Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.” ― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I may have posted these somewhere before, but I'm partial to the Demotivational Poster slogans... "Negativity: what optimists call objectivity when they don't like the answer" "Achievement: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labour" "Motivation: If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will soon be doing" "Persistence: You just need that one successful idea to shine the light on how much time you've wasted" "Affirmation: Instilling the self-confidence kids will need to carry them through all the failure they'll experience because they weren't taught competence instead" "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others"
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.” ― Charles Eisenstein Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.” ― Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We still carry within us, in a small warm spot, the idea of home. Home as a safe place, a loving place and a creative place. Place of comfort and privacy. Place where we can explore our inner life. ” ― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
