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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2021 18:42:27 GMT
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ~Khalil Gibran (Book: The Treasured Writings of Khalil Gibran amzn.to/3mafp23)
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Oct 25, 2021 19:50:21 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2021 19:50:21 GMT
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? ~Virginia Woolf (Book: Night and Day amzn.to/3E69MrY)
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Oct 28, 2021 13:01:13 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2021 13:01:13 GMT
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/3jzC1HK)
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Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2021 13:04:13 GMT
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. It transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time." ~Leo Tolstoy (Book: The Kreutzer Sonata amzn.to/3vRepmE)
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Oct 28, 2021 13:20:49 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2021 13:20:49 GMT
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry and the water is their tears. I listen to the water on nights I drink away and the sadness becomes so great I hear it in my clock it becomes knobs upon my dresser it becomes paper on the floor it becomes a shoehorn a laundry ticket it becomes cigarette smoke climbing a chapel of dark vines. . . it matters little very little love is not so bad or very little life what counts is waiting on walls I was born for this I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
Consummation Of Grief,Charles Bukowski.
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Oct 28, 2021 15:34:50 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2021 15:34:50 GMT
"I have no notions of a perfect society; I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got. I’m no utopian - I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony. I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth."
- Jacque Fresco
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Oct 30, 2021 10:28:29 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2021 10:28:29 GMT
They will eat you up, one by one, one after the other, until you are done. I’m not the cruel type, but they are, and that’s the secret. ~Charles Bukowski (Book: Tales of Ordinary Madness amzn.to/3vXhLVp)
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Oct 30, 2021 17:37:08 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2021 17:37:08 GMT
Existentialism cannot be called a pessimistic description of man, for no doctrine is more optimistic, since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself. Nor is existentialism an attempt to discourage man from taking action, since it tells him that the only hope resides in his actions and that the only thing that allows him to live is action. ~Jean-Paul Sartre (Book: Existentialism is a Humanism amzn.to/3bpFAM3)
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Oct 31, 2021 9:44:14 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2021 9:44:14 GMT
"The childishness of the average adult is so unsuspected you would collapse in horror if you saw it all at once. Say something flatter- ing to a man and he likes you. Say something critical and he hates you. That is all there is to him, but in his lunacy he calls him- self intelligent and self-controlled. His delusion is his madness. When his inner hell breaks out into the open you have monstrous war and crime." Freedom from a Life of Hell, p. 4
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Nov 1, 2021 10:41:58 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2021 10:41:58 GMT
The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance. ~Charles Bukowski (Book: The Captain is Out to Lunch amzn.to/2ZCh7Rx)
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Nov 1, 2021 11:00:31 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2021 11:00:31 GMT
You're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ~J.D. Salinger (Book: The Catcher in the Rye amzn.to/3myzakd)
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Nov 1, 2021 12:04:25 GMT
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on Nov 1, 2021 12:04:25 GMT
Re post 28/10/21 Music... transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time."
~Leo Tolstoy (Book: The Kreutzer Sonata amzn.to/3vRepmE
When I'm hurting most its Plum Village chanting Namo Avaloktesvara with musical accompaniment. When its uplift I need it's John Boden and his various bands eg Bellowhead.
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Nov 3, 2021 11:32:32 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2021 11:32:32 GMT
"When the writing on the wall becomes too frightening, most people flee to the reassurance of day-to-day life with its unchanging, pressing demands. And this temptation today is all the stronger since any long-range view of history isn't very encouraging either..."
Hannah Arendt
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Nov 3, 2021 13:01:36 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2021 13:01:36 GMT
“I never have been in despair about the world. I’ve been enraged by it. I don’t think I’m in despair. I can’t afford despair. I can’t tell my nephew, my niece. You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.”
James Baldwin
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Nov 3, 2021 16:29:48 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2021 16:29:48 GMT
My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves. ~Hermann Hesse (Book: Demian amzn.to/3w201Ih)
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