"I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Reflection Quotes #Self Quotes #Dwelling Quotes

“I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.”
“People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.”
“The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.”
“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”
“The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.”

Source : "NBA player who made $30 million explains why he's quitting at age 26" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 25, 2015.
“Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.”
“Okay. So, apparently I find burly Indian men attractive. What's wrong with that?”
“The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.”

Source : Dane Rudhyar (2017). “New Mansions for New Men”, p.50, Pickle Partners Publishing

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