"An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself"

-- Alejandra Pizarnik

#Dwelling Quotes #Space Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.”

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“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”
“Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.80, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.”
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”
“I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”

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“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”

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