“It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.”
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
“Prejudice is grounded on sentiments, that's where reason must intervene, and coldness is grounded on logic, that's where warmth must prevail.”
― The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
― The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance. When we try to give sense to our life, we can come to ‘awareness’ and fill some of the numerous black holes of witlessness in our thinking. We may, then, defy and dam the existential void, down the stretch. ("Not without my shadow")”
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“Whereas many people can find happiness by partaking in the ordinary trappings of life, creative people are especially susceptible to enduring an existential crisis, feeling that their life is aimless, irrational, and intolerably painful, especially when they are at an artistic impasse. The impelling act of using their imagination to create enduring artistic testaments is perhaps their only method to blunt the fateful feeling that it is useless to continue living in a world where life has no ultimate meaning, value, and purpose.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“What's going on in our world today is not something we can run away from. Therefore the calmest place is the eye of the storm. (...)
Chaos may be swirling all around us but if we stay in the center, obviously also metaphorically the centre of our own Being, that's where we're going to be able to handle everything that's going on, no matter how chaotic it gets. (...)
In the eye of the storm we're not tossed about by what we see.”
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Chaos may be swirling all around us but if we stay in the center, obviously also metaphorically the centre of our own Being, that's where we're going to be able to handle everything that's going on, no matter how chaotic it gets. (...)
In the eye of the storm we're not tossed about by what we see.”
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