#ram

It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about. ↗

— Daniel Schwabauer

#dreams

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all. ↗

— Donna Goddard

#dreams #maturity #real-life #reality #soul

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#arm #equal #eve #feet #head

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#hayley-williams #jeremy-davis #music #paramore #taylor-york

[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#obituary #equality

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#encourage #programs #use #yet

There is nothing more needy of criticism and worthless than general disinterest. He who does not journey does not return. He who does not have foreign experiences does not know how to organize his time and energies at home. The stay-at-home is like an archer painted on the wall: shooting continuously but never hitting anything. ↗

— Abraham Von Worms

#experience

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#ignorance #life #parameters #experience

…our aim has been to provide anyone who is seriously interested with an introduction to the world of the archetypes, and to make this introduction as simple as possible. For this reason we have included… a number of schemas, or diagrams, which as experience has shown, make things much easier for most people, though by no means for all.” Erich Neumann, The Great Mother, p.xii. ↗

— Erich Neumann

#experience