–Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “I am a Dictionary.” — Marcel Proust, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. –Robert Fulghum, “I REFUSE to participate in a recession.” –from the movie “Into Great Silence”, “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” –Mark Twain, “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” The foundation of such a method is love.” –Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “Our job is to make the Universal Unconscious conscious.”
–Hanz Bolen, H.W., M. “God is a lot more complex than we know. To make Spiritual Truth an effective force for ordered freedom and common good.
–Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”
–Thane of Hawaii, “None of you knows what creativity means. –22-year-old student of philosophy. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Man is, that he might have joy.”
You are an individuation of creative intuition. –Thomas Dewar, First Baron Dewar (Yes, that Dewar…), “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” “My heart is like a toilet door! — George Bernard Shaw, “. Subscribe to this free midweek pick-me-up for heart, mind, and spirit below — it is separate from the standard Sunday digest of new pieces: “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” the young Nietzsche wrote as he contemplated what it takes to find oneself. It isn't.
“We do not tame Truth. Barrie in Tommy and Grizel, “If you don’t believe in something greater than yourself, you’ll never do anything greater than yourself.”
We believe customer No. “Handsome is a sort of kindness.” If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. –Simone de Beauvoir. “The inner children of the past shut up when you listen to them.”
You were made to enrich the world with a sound, a tone, a shadow.
Claim yours: Also: Because Brain Pickings is in its fourteenth year and because I write primarily about ideas of a timeless character, I have decided to plunge into my vast archive every Wednesday and choose from the thousands of essays one worth resurfacing and resavoring.
–Melissa Goodnight, H.W., M. “It is so respectful to not get involved in somebody else’s angst.” This is E.E. “Love disobeys all the rules.” –Ben Gilberti, H.W., M. “Falling in love is a form of mystical envisioning in which one sees the beloved as he or she is seen through the eyes of God.” –Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “The Universe loves it when we Translate.”
–David Mamet, “If you want to be a writer, you don’t want to live in a comfortable place.” We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” –Robert McEwen, H.W., M. “The traditional ethical precept about anger is sometimes translated as not to get angry, but in modern Soto Zen Buddhism, we say not to harbor ill will.” There is only Being. –Joseph Smith, “To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.” –Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “Truth moves at the speed of now.” –Suzanne Deakins, H.W., M. “It’s impossible to not be.” The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E.
Addressing those who aspire to be poets — no doubt in that broadest Baldwinian sense of wakeful artists in any medium and courageous seers of human truth — Cummings echoes the poet Laura Riding’s exquisite letters to an eight-year-old girl about being oneself and writes: A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. In the same way, my friends, man suffers destiny. Privacy policy. Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. Required fields are marked *. –Christian Morgenstern, German poet, “Just as the same city viewed from different directions appears entirely different … there are, as it were, just as many different universes, which are, nevertheless, only perspectives on a single one, corresponding to the different points of view.” — Native American proverb at cafe in San Francisco, “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” — Anais Nin, “A change in the weather is sufficient to re-create the world and ourselves.” . –Richard Rohr, “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. –Paul Valéry, “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.” Brain Pickings has a free Sunday digest of the week's most interesting and inspiring articles across art, science, philosophy, creativity, children's books, and other strands of our search for truth, beauty, and meaning. –Richard Branam. Some of Hesse’s most emboldening ideas about our human responsibility to ourselves and the world unfold in his “Letter to a Young German,” written to a dispirited youth in 1919 and later included in his 1946 anthology If the War Goes On… (public library), published the year he received the Nobel Prize — the same stirring piece that gave us Hesse on hope, the difficult art of taking responsibility, and the wisdom of the inner voice. –Taigen Dan Leighton. –from the movie “Spotlight”, “Truth is in the constant process of renewing Itself.” the only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten that you are divine.” –Martin Buber, “If you knew all this shit [philosophy], you’d be unfuckwithable.” When not projected outward onto others or inward toward the self, it gives us the necessary energy and clarity to understand what needs to be done.” –Richard Branam, “Peacocks strut around because they cannot fly.” Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. “You can’t change your shoes while you’re standing in them.” –Plato. Solitude is the path that men most fear. –Robert Mapplethorpe, “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will truly know peace.” — Cool Lester Smooth from “The Wire”, “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
The courage of being yourself – geoffreybaines – Medium.
–Martin Luther King Jr. “Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away” –I Corinthians 15:21. –from the French film “Toi and Moi”.
–Kurtis Matthews, San Francisco Comedy College, “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” But all the good in a man, for which he is praised or loved, is merely good suffering, the right kind, the living kind of suffering, a suffering to the full. “When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.” It grows out of the suffering which you have not yet learned to suffer. – Jean-Paul Sartre, “Show up. Required fields are marked *. –Seen on a bumper sticker in Redondo Beach, CA, “At times I think and at times I am.” E.E. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” –Mike Zonta, H.W., M. “The world is not here to make you happy. Complement the thoroughly invigorating E.E. “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche.
Life is in the right, always.” –D.H. Plays are about lies.” Laws, rules, and religious morality cannot, should not take the place of our ability to realize we are one consciousness, manifesting in infinite variety.” –John Ciardi, “Energy is primary. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. –R.W.