pjthompson | Entries tagged with self-knowledge

Random quote of the day:

“Always we want to learn from the outside, from absorbing other people's knowledge. It's safer that way. The trouble is that it's always other people's knowledge. We already have everything we need to know, in the darkness inside ourselves. The longing is what turns us inside out until we find the sun and the moon and stars inside.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“Black holes out there in the universe are nothing compared to the black holes in our own past. Those holes are much more than ordinary gaps. They have the power to destroy our ideas about ourselves and bring us face to face with nothingness.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Random quote of the day:

“It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.”

—Wally (Famous) Amos, Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”

—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW12

Random quote of the day:

“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are?”

—Tananarive Due, My Soul to Keep

Random quote of the day:

“There is never an answer to the great question of life and death, unless it is my answer or yours. Because ultimately it isn’t a question that is addressed, but a person. Our whole being has to be answered. At that point, both question and answer disappear, like hunger after a good meal.”

—Stephen Mitchell, Introduction to The Book of Job

Random quote of the day:

“Two truths approach each other. One comes from inside, the
other from outside,
And where they meet we have a chance to catch sight of ourselves.”

—Tomas Tranströmer, “Preludes” (tr. Robert Bly)

Random quote of the day:

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838”

Random quote of the day:

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

―Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s,” address for the Malcolm X weekend, February 1982, Harvard University

Random quote of the day:

“i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me”

―Lucille Clifton, i am running into a new year

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“When you are you, you see things as they are, and you become one with your surroundings.”

—Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Random quote of the day:

“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”

—James Baldwin, "Stranger in the Village," Harper’s, October 1953

Random quote of the day:

“The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself—and pays his psychoanalyst.”

—John W. Gardner, No Easy Victories

Random quote of the day:

“Deciding to do something different just because you know it’s different does not make you unique. Unique is liking what you like. Unique is shamelessly admitting how much you still love that band even after they’ve sold out.”

—Amy Shock, “This is what I find to be true,” https://thoughtcatalog.com/amy-shock/2013/05/this-is-what-i-find-to-be-true/

Random quote of the day:

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, Force of Circumstances, Vol. III (tr. Richard Howard)

Random quote of the day:

“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

—Oliver Sacks, “My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer,” New York Times, February 19, 2015

Random quote of the day:

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

—August Wilson, quoted by Seattle Repertory Theatre

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Orville and Wilbur, Katy Perry, or the Avengers. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Increasingly I have come to realize that spiritual growth and unfolding is sometimes psychically and emotionally painful. Pricking [by thorns], and the realization of being wrong, are themselves metaphors for the challenges and pains of self-discovery.”

—Dennis Gaffin, Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.”

—François Mauriac, Journal, 1932-1939

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks

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