| Author Index |
|
Browse quotes by the
author's last name
|
| Popular Quotes |
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. KennedyHome is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost |
|
Human kind cannot bear very much reality. If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society, it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world. The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches. |
| Quote of the Day |
|
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. |
|
