Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 6, 2025 04:27 PM by Magical Realist.)

"I do not care for the body, I love the timid soul, the blushing, shrinking soul; it hides, for it is afraid, and the bold, obtrusive body— Pray, marm, did you call me? We are very small... I think we grow still smaller — this tiny, insect life the portal to another; it seems strange — strange indeed." ~Emily Dickinson, 1851

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 6, 2025 04:25 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.”--John Updike, "Rabbit at Rest"

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 7, 2025 05:34 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
― René Guénon

**Magical Realist** · Apr 8, 2025 04:31 AM

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you’ve ceased to live.” ---Mark Twain

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 8, 2025 06:15 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."---- Henri Frederic Amiel

**Magical Realist** · Apr 9, 2025 05:21 AM

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 12, 2025 07:44 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”—Anthony Bourdain

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 14, 2025 07:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

Few poor souls recover from the spacetime vortex of needing their glasses in order to find their glasses. Many simply vanish never to return!

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 15, 2025 08:09 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Apr 17, 2025 07:59 PM by Magical Realist.)

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear