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

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It is neither wealth nor poverty that keeps people out of the kingdom— it is pride .

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

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

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Voltaire

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.