Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Dec 6, 2020 07:27 PM

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

**Magical Realist** · Dec 7, 2020 07:18 PM

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

**C C** · (This post was last modified: Dec 7, 2020 10:24 PM by C C.)

(Dec 7, 2020 07:18 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

If "madness" is subscribing or reverting to the popular dogmatic culture that one was either raised in or acquired later. Everything neatly wrapped-up.

Or if "madness" is any gradual development away from the original state of innocence, of Eden: A baby lacking memory or language-based cognition and reasoning to understand or puzzle over what it is experiencing -- no means to create "problems" seeking explanations.

An insect isn't mentally confronted by "grand riddles", either. Just lives in its narrow, innate routine -- never deviating from the survival/reproductive program and the latter's intuitively evident "answers" or limit.

The ultimate mystery-free condition would be death or non-consciousness. Not just a lack of reactive reasoning, but all passive manifestation of world and self being gone, too.

**Magical Realist** · Dec 8, 2020 09:03 PM

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
― Henry Rollins

**Magical Realist** · Dec 10, 2020 08:37 AM

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

**Magical Realist** · Dec 10, 2020 08:57 PM

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

**Magical Realist** · Dec 11, 2020 08:10 AM

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive!” - Hafiz

**Magical Realist** · Dec 11, 2020 10:04 PM

“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 12, 2020 04:25 PM by Magical Realist.)

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggests that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”
― Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture

**Magical Realist** · Dec 13, 2020 08:44 PM

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy