Helen Cresswell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

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