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> Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. ALBERT CAMUS in The Myth of Sisyphus SONG: “Myth” by BEACH HOUSE download :: Back to Brain Pickings

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> Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise > the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. BERTRAND RUSSELL in Mysticism and Logic SONG: �...

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> Largeness is a lifelong matter – sometimes a conscious goal, > sometimes not… You grow because you are not content not to. You > are like a beaver that chews co...

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> Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders. E.B. WHITE (b. July 11, 1899) in Charlotte’s Web SONG: “What a Wonderful World” by LOUIS ARMSTRONG d...

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> Compassion emerges from imagining the world alive. ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ in On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes SONG: “Compassion” by LUCINDA WILLIAMS download :: Back to B...

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> The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the > light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not > travel the whole dist...

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> Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know > what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. BERTRAND RUSSELL in “Mathematic...

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> Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. NEIL GAIMAN in The Graveyard Book SONG: “Escape Artist” by Zoë Keating download :: Back to Brain Pickings

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> Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. > Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you > wanted. How would you li...

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> Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. > When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but > what it means. UMBERTO ...

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> In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay > an invincible summer. ALBERT CAMUS in Lyrical and Critical Essays SONG: “River” by JONI MITCHELL ...

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> The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic, must steal on one > unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace… OLIVER SACKS (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015)...

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> “I really don’t want anything. Nothing at all.” And then he > realized how true that was; and how dreadful a thing it had become. > “Have you ever got every...

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> Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all > the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. HELEN SCHUCMAN in A Course in Miracle...

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> WHEN DEATH COMES  >  > When death comes  >  > like the hungry bear in autumn;  >  > when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse  >  > to buy...

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> Each of us … constructs and lives a “narrative” and is defined > by this narrative. OLIVER SACKS (b. July 9, 1933) in On the Move SONG: “Concerto for Violin and Orche...

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> Knowing more and more … can block the passageways to feeling. ELIZABETH ALEXANDER in The Light of the World SONG: “Believe (Nobody Knows)” by MY MORNING JACKET iTunes ::...

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> Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, > with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there > vanishes as well a religiou...

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> To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. THICH NHAT HANH in How to Love SONG: “Love Song” by Dawn Landes SoundCloud :: Amazon :: Back to Brain Pic...

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> What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one > that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had > never come. The great...

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