Lion Goodman
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Lion Goodman
These thoughts appear to be real, but every single one of them is false. Yes, they emerge in our minds, and we are used to them being there, but they do not represent the truth about who we truly are and what we are here to do.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
When your thoughts are about you being less than boundless and free, they are not telling the truth.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Writing is mystagogy. It is leading oneself, or others, into a great mystery. Their own lives are a mystery. It is a good place to start.
The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way
The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way
Luke Burgis • Why I Write
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live ev... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
John Steinbeck • East of Eden
"I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Hermann Hesse
― Hermann Hesse