Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 21, 2019 03:08 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I heard a bird congratulating itself
all day for being a jay.
Nobody cared. But it was glad
all over again, and said so, again.”
― William Stafford

“I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

**Magical Realist** · Mar 22, 2019 05:44 PM

"What if I told you that the world around you, with its rich colors, textures, sounds, and scents is an illusion, a show put on for you by your brain? If you could perceive reality as it is, you would be shocked by its colorless, odorless, tasteless silence. Outside your brain, there is just energy and matter.”
― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 22, 2019 07:50 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.
When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 23, 2019 08:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

**Magical Realist** · Mar 23, 2019 11:14 PM

“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 24, 2019 08:39 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen

**Magical Realist** · Mar 25, 2019 07:19 PM

“Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

**Magical Realist** · Mar 26, 2019 09:00 AM

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

**Magical Realist** · Mar 27, 2019 07:42 PM

“It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.”
― Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 28, 2019 09:51 PM by Magical Realist.)

“... darkness is beautiful. It has tremendous depth, silence, infinity. Light comes and goes; darkness always remains, it is more eternal than light. For light you need some fuel; for darkness no fuel is needed - it is simply there.”
― Osho, Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself