Quote of the day

[Magical Realist]

“Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.”
― John Mark Green

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[Magical Realist]

“The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.”
― Patrick Harpur, The Secret Tradition of the Soul

[Magical Realist]

“I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
― Federico García-Lorca

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[Magical Realist]

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

[Magical Realist]

“It is all right to be simply the way you have to be,
among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.”
― William Stafford

[Magical Realist]

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy Of Verse

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[Magical Realist]

“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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“You have re-remembered that happiness has something to do with simplicity. And so, by slow degrees, you regain a sense of harmony with everything you move through- rock and soil, plant and tree and cactus, spider, fly, rattlesnake, and coyote, drop of rain and racing cloud shadow.” — Colin Fletcher, The Complete Walker.

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[Magical Realist]

“I liked the night. Things grow at night. My imagination is available to me at night. All my preconceptions of things go away. Sometimes you could be looking for heaven in the wrong places. Sometimes it could be under your feet. Or in your bed.”
–Bob Dylan, Chronicles Vol. 1, Photo in NYC, by Lynn Goldsmith (1983)

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[Magical Realist]

"Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards".---Jean Paul Sartre

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[Magical Realist]

“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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