Hmmm
Simile
How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here . (The here is where
the somethings touch.) The rainy
night, like Debussy.
There on the shelf, a piece
of grapevine in a blue
vase. The world is so much
like itself it can be hard to see.
Tomorrow I will try again
to understand: what is a simile?
All night, all day: the rain
come... See more
How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here . (The here is where
the somethings touch.) The rainy
night, like Debussy.
There on the shelf, a piece
of grapevine in a blue
vase. The world is so much
like itself it can be hard to see.
Tomorrow I will try again
to understand: what is a simile?
All night, all day: the rain
come... See more
Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
It is neither wealth nor poverty that keeps people out of the kingdom— it is pride .
Just a moment...

Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world. https://t.co/9gfnaeAPqH
“The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since all of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, all of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree.”- M. Scott Peck
A quote by M. Scott Peck
It seems a common experience in the lives of people with high agency is that they, at some point, metaphorically, lean against a wall and discover that there is a hidden door.
Henrik Karlssonx.com“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
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Voltaire
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Voltaire
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Thomas Merton once said that if we want to study Buddhism, the answer is not to read a lot of books on Buddhism; it’s to meet a holy Buddhist instead.
