#tin

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless. I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be. And so I light out for the unknown regions. ↗

— M.T. Anderson

#life #mind #experience

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#faith

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#life #memory #life

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#circus #dating #funny #girls #humor

If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven." From The Writing Of The Caribbean, The Atlas Of Literature, edited by Malcolm Bradbury ↗

— Edited by Malcolm Bradbury

#caribbean #guyana #westindies #wi #home

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. ↗

— Deborah Cater

#travel #travel-writing #experience

In fact, according to physicians, the functioning of the digestion depends less on the brain than on hormonal mechanisms and autoregulators. However, during a fast, the digestive system gets an increasing rest. About ten hours after a meal, the contractions stop and the feeling of hunger disappears; five or six hours later the glucose stops coming directly from the intestines and begins to produce itself from the reserve of glycogen contained in the liver. From then on, the body works on itself in a closed circuit, becoming itself the source of the energy it uses. Instead of destroying an appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spirituality #experience