Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Jul 23, 2018 06:07 PM

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

**Magical Realist** · Jul 25, 2018 06:19 PM

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 26, 2018 04:39 PM by Magical Realist.)

"If I were president for a day, I'd pass a law that everyone who has ever taken a selfie while puckering their lips should be taken out and shot."---MR

**Magical Realist** · Jul 26, 2018 05:53 PM

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

**Magical Realist** · Jul 27, 2018 04:36 PM

“You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 28, 2018 08:22 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 29, 2018 05:12 PM by Magical Realist.)

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."---William James

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

**Magical Realist** · Jul 30, 2018 07:57 PM

“The Universe consists of frozen light.”
― David Bohm

**Secular Sanity** · Jul 31, 2018 01:31 PM

"Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night..."—Sylvia Plath

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**Magical Realist** · Jul 31, 2018 06:02 PM

“People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit