Have you ever started a path?
No one seems willing to do this.
We don't mind using existing paths,
but we rarely start new ones.
Do it today.
Start a path.
Even if it doesn't lead anywhere.
George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
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Poetry, thoughts, and quotations to help get us through the night.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Start a path
Monday, August 8, 2022
Part of divine power
That by desiring what is perfectly good,
even when we don’t quite know what it is
and cannot do what we would,
we are part of divine power against evil –
widening the skirts of light
and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Poem: I didn't go to church today
I didn't go to church today,
I trust the Lord to understand.
The surf was swirling blue and white,
The children swirling on the sand.
He knows, He knows how brief my stay,
How brief this spell of summer weather,
He knows when I am said and done
We'll have plenty of time together.
Ogden Nash
Saturday, August 6, 2022
A journey
The landscape changes, the people change,
our needs change, but the train keeps moving.
Life is the train, not the station.
And what you’re doing now isn’t traveling,
it’s just changing countries, which is completely different.
Understand what is going on inside you
and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else.
Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Friday, August 5, 2022
Get the most you can
Clarence Darrow, Infidels and Heretics
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Pull down the stars
It is not far from it.
No urban night is like the night there...
Squares after squares of flame,
set up and cut into the aether.
Here is our poetry,
for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound, Patria Mia
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
What are we doing here?
We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide examples for others.
We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange,
perhaps merely to add our small piece,
our little clunky, chunky selves,
to the great mosaic of being.
As the gods intended,
we are here to become more and more ourselves.
James Hollis, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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