'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.
Plutarch
I love this quote:
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
Apologies if it's already been posted, this is a real long thread!
@MxSmith live that!
“We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are. We do not become storytellers. We came as carriers of the stories that we and our ancestors actually lived. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are. We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are. We do not become writers.. dancers.. musicians.. helpers.. peacemakers. We came as such. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are. We do not learn to love in this sense. We came as Love. We are Love. Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.”
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
art: Caroline Maniere
Image description: A black and white picture of an aged Bertrand Russell sitting in a library, smiling gently at the camera.
Text printed across the lower half of the image reads, "Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved. Bertrand A. W. Russell"
"Removing someone's tongue does not prove them a liar, it merely proves you are afraid of what they might say".
@MissAdventurous i love that🙏🏼
“Fear not; you can eat whatever you want when you have dysentery, for this too shall pass.”
@FunCartel 😂😂😂
@cuddles_ndream be kind whenever it’s possible, it’s always possible 🙏🏼-Dalai Lama
@MissAdventurous I love your posts🤩
“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.” — J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin
"Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: pull down your pants, and slide on the ice." -Sidney Freedman
Human wisdom has the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.