Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 26, 2020 06:37 PM by Magical Realist.)

"There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through."--Leonard Bernstein

"The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself."--Friedrich Nietzsche

**Magical Realist** · Aug 27, 2020 05:58 PM

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."---William James

**Magical Realist** · Aug 28, 2020 08:03 PM

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
― Pablo Neruda

**Magical Realist** · Sep 1, 2020 02:25 AM

“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.”
― Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian

**Magical Realist** · Sep 3, 2020 07:43 PM

“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.”
― Wassily Kandinsky

**Magical Realist** · Sep 4, 2020 09:41 PM

“Mind is not really 'inside' us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity.”
― Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

**Magical Realist** · Sep 12, 2020 06:41 PM

"Play is the exultation of possibility."---Martin Buber

**Magical Realist** · Sep 12, 2020 09:18 PM

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."---Ezra Pound

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 13, 2020 06:15 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature

**Magical Realist** · Sep 15, 2020 07:17 AM

“Our lives begin in the everyday and stay in the everyday. Only in the everyday can we begin to create truly great worlds.”
― Michael Puett, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life