Laurel Park
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Laurel Park
hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don’t know what it is. You have only covered up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All
... See moreEckhart Tolle • A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Keeping a Commonplace Book: Why & How
youtube.comLook, my commonplace book is easily justified. I write and speak about things for a living. I need this resource. But so do you. You write papers, memos, emails, notes to friends, birthday cards, give advice, have conversations at dinner, console loved ones, tell someone special how you feel about them. All these are opportunities to use the wisdom... See more
Ryan Holiday • How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
I wasn’t put on this earth to be a reporter. But I might have been put on this earth to live beside a woman. Is that so out of the question?”
Albert Camus • The Plague
“Touching people’s lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to the idea of a religion” - Keith Haring Journals July 7 1986
“ I am finally a woman willing to feed herself—light, bread, joy. Sometimes you don’t know you are starving until you’ve had a proper meal. That’s when your heart really begins to howl—when it learns what it’s been missing.” - Unknown
Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of representational thinking.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
Not using abstractsz o representations
recognizes nothing outside the powers of its jurisdiction.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
Flaws in christianity