Thoughts I Return To
thoughts, ideas, musings i want to return to
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Thoughts I Return To
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide
to be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul - Simone Weil
“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Simone Weil Quotes (Author of Gravity and Grace)
Rejection is good for the soul
I love this quote by Alexander Haymen. I suspect this is why i don't feel at home on the Internet:
"Home is where people notice when you’re not there."
“Everything we make, everything we do, is a bid for bearing our transience.” —Maria Popova
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: ‘What are you going through?’ It is a recognition that the sufferer exists, not only as a unit in a collection, or a specimen from the social category labeled ‘unfortunate,’ but as a man, exactly like us, who was one day stamped with a special mark by affliction.”
... See moreFocus as a thing we have v. Focus as something we do
On responding to tension with tension vs. ease
I can’t hold on to water if I clench my fist.
The only way for me to contain it is to open my palm, and have it move through me.