Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Apr 5, 2021 07:28 PM

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

**Magical Realist** · Apr 6, 2021 06:18 PM

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 7, 2021 07:03 PM by Magical Realist.)

"We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds."--Carlos Castaneda

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up.. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.”
—Emil Cioran

**Magical Realist** · Apr 8, 2021 06:40 PM

"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance."--C.G. Jung

**Magical Realist** · Apr 9, 2021 04:21 AM

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”---Ludwig Wittgenstein

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 10, 2021 12:45 AM by Magical Realist.)

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"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
•Napoleon Bonaparte

•Art by :Andrew Wyeth

**Leigha** · Apr 10, 2021 05:42 AM

''You think you know someone. But mostly, you just know what you want to know.'' - Joe Hill (Stephen King's son, and American writer)

**Leigha** · (This post was last modified: Apr 11, 2021 03:48 AM by Leigha.)

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame"

- William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

**Magical Realist** · Apr 11, 2021 03:52 PM

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 12, 2021 06:45 PM by Magical Realist.)

Why is there something instead of something?

“Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.”
― Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself