To be human is to feel at times divided, fractured, pulled in a dozen directions … and to yearn for serenity, for some healing of our ‘torn-to-pieces-hood.’— The Spirituality of Imperfection – storytelling and the search for meaning. (via explore-blog)
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Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.— Joan Didion, on self-respect. (via explore-blog)
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lmpressions:
It’s quite a possible thing to walk to the edge of human knowledge. Some paths are easier than others, but the important thing is what you do when you are confronted with that precipice, that void. Most people turn back and choose another path to explore, spending time retreading the already worn tracks. But there is one class of people, the pioneers, who will take up the surrounding knowledge -a forest of colour theory perhaps- and make a jetty into the darkness. Sometimes that structure collapses and they are lost in the void, sometimes those jetties become bridges to newly discovered islands of knowledge, and sometimes we work together to make huge superstructures into the abyss - though these too can fail from poor foundations. The important lesson is that it can be done, whether alone or as a group it is best done carefully, rigorously and with respect for previous knowledge. But only by these first pioneering structures can we start to form new landscapes around them. The question you have to ask yourself, is whether you like walking, or building. The path that is yet to be built, is the harder one to take.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (via youveescaped)
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There’s release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there’s nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.— Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair (via middlenameconfused)
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“Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” :)
futureisfiction:
RIP Maurice Sendak. Here the full Maurice Sendak interview with Terry Gross.
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There is no order in the world around us. We must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (via loveyourchaos)
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
— Hermann Hesse (via loveyourchaos)
And after, the experience leaves an unexplainable, unsettling hollowness deep inside, more often than not. But yet we must attempt and hone expression. Why? I too wonder, as much as I admire and am captivated by seemingly perfectly-matched expressions. The requirement to connect and communicate. And I’ll continue to learn, to understand and practice, if nothing else, in hope and trust of improvement and better relationships with my fellow human brothers and sisters.
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“There must be more to life than having everything!”
—Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012)
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Outside the open window― Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
The morning air is all awash with angels.
We’re fascinated by the words— Ram Dass (via amoralities)
but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Yet how malleable our memories are, even if our brains are intact. Neuroscientists now suggest that while the core meaning of a longterm memory remains, the memory transforms each time we attempt to remember.— Mira Bartok (The Memory Palace)
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reginasworld:
A Massive Field of 200,000 Clay FiguresBritish sculptor Antony Gormley is well-known for his life-size sculptures that creatively mimic the human body, but the figurative clay mounds from his series titled Field.
Mom’s here.
mlee525:
Noelle Stevenson, The Upside of Being an Introvert
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