Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · May 2, 2020 05:06 PM

“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been there or what is somewhere else.”
― C. S.Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life

**Magical Realist** · May 4, 2020 08:20 PM

“I don’t want to forget what it feels like to have someone touch me. I don’t want to forget what it feels like to touch other people.”
― A.E.M., Phoenix Incandescent

**Magical Realist** · May 7, 2020 08:32 PM

“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

**Magical Realist** · May 8, 2020 02:42 PM

"That's part of your problem you know, you haven't seen enough movies; all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."--Davis, "Grand Canyon"

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 9, 2020 12:20 AM by Magical Realist.)

“It is exactly when others insist that it’s a sign of being free, fresh, and radical to do what everybody’s doing that you might want to take notice and think for yourself. Don’t be surprised if this is really hard to do.”
― Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 9, 2020 04:06 PM by Magical Realist.)

"...contrary to the naïve dogmatists’ view, that which science captures are not the things themselves, but simply relationships between them. Beyond these relations, there is no knowable reality..." -- Henri Poincare, "Science and Hypothesis"

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 10, 2020 04:20 PM by Magical Realist.)

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 11, 2020 03:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Practice in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 11, 2020 04:50 PM by Magical Realist.)

“We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism.”
― Terence McKenna

**Magical Realist** · May 12, 2020 06:23 PM

“Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy