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'Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then you can detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.'

-Samuel Beckett

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Eight Lessons to Learn with Homer’s Iliad

A Schopenhauer quote that feels like winter

Love:

Livestream reading tonight of:

1001 Nights

And Salman Rushdie's '2 Years, 8 Months, and 28 Nights'

This space opens 3 hours later for group discussion.

Check comments here for previous two recordings of the readings!
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Marcus Aurelius, in his notes “To Himself” 11.18, offers ten rules to avoid getting angry:

1. Understand our interconnectedness: Recognize our role as part of a greater whole, where each individual contributes to the collective good.

2. Consider the character of those who…

Whispering Dostoevsky's,'I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea' as I make myself a cup of tea

[Nietzsche] had written to Franz Overbeck, in 1882, that he was possessed of 'a fatalistic 'trust in God' ' which he preferred to call amor fati.

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.

Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.

Here the secret lies.

Here lies the entire story.

- James Baldwin.

Belief is looking at a chair and judging that it will hold your weight. Faith is sitting on it.

Seriously, you let Raymond Reddington die on a ranch? Attacked by a raging bull? Best way to end it, my fave series.

A man who found it easier to risk his life than live his life without risk.

#TheBlacklist
Jon Bokenkamp

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

— On The Road; Jack Kerouac

— Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'