"The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all"

-- William Butler Yeats

#Blessed Quotes #Self Quotes #Common Quotes

“Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”

Source : "Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung" by Rosa Luxemburg, (p. 109), 1920.
“Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.”
“I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.”
“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”
“I believe in criticism.”
“I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap." My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.40, A&C Black
“The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?”
“Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.”

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