"Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute."

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Source : Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books

Richard Grossinger

#Wings Quotes #Yellow Quotes #White Quotes

“We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only Godâ€™s Word is the test.”
“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”
“The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.”
“New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books
“I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.”
“All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.”

Source : "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.
“We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.”

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