Quotes

I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.

- Bill Plotkin

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

—Krishnamurti

Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."

“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger

Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly... No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

— Pat Barker

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

― La Rochefoucauld

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

— Zhuangzi

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

― Miles Davis