I want to learn how to walk down the ladder gracefully.
I have this image – I would like to get smaller and smaller in a relevant way.
Carly Simon, on what she learned from dealing with cancer and other life setbacks, quoted in Sara Davidson, The First Day of the Rest of My Life
The beauty of a mountain is that it is so much like a mountain, and of water that it is so much like water
Zen saying
To regress in a certain way is to return to origins, to step back from the battle line of existence, to remember the gods and spirits and elements of nature, including your own pristine nature, the person you were at the beginning. You return to the womb of imagination so that your pregnancy can recycle. You are always being born, always dying to the day to find the restorative waters of night. Darkness is natural, one of the life processes. There may be some promise, the mere suggestion that life is going forward, even though you have no sense of where you are headed. It’s a time of waiting and trusting. My attitude as a therapist in these situations is not to be anxious for a conclusion or even understanding.
You have to sit with these things and in due time let them be revealed for what they are.
Thomas Moore, The Dark Night of the Soul
We have been given bad advice about the ego.
We know we need it
but we think we are it.
Mark Epstein, Advice not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Only a total dance, an authentic love, a whole-hearted joy, may perhaps create some miracles around you.
But you will not be the one who has done them; you will not be the one who can brag about them.
They will happen only when you are not.
Osho
Not just writers, but politicians, journalists and most of modern distracted society…
Most writers waste people’s time with too many words. I’m trying to reduce everything down to the minimum.
My last work will be a blank piece of paper.
Samuel Beckett
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