"Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.”
“I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.”
“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.”
“My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
“People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.”
“In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.”
“When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.”

Source : Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.29, Dion Fortune
“I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.”

Source : "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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