“I’m very interested in someone’s path to knowledge being a kind of madness. I’m interested in the route that people must take to arrive at a spot where they can be large and whole and responsive.”
Scott Spencer
more infosource: “Scott Spencer,” interviewed by Lorrie Moore, BOMB magazine, issue 67, Spring 1999.
category: knowledge, madness, mind, self
medium: Interview
“This town can have as much horror mentally for a sensitive person as a blitzed city may have, physically, for a turnip.”
John Fowles
more infosource: The Journals: Volume One 1949–1965 (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005). 5.
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category: alienation, horror, mind
medium: journal
“Our mental processes are closer to a maze than a motorway.”
Jeanette Winterson
more infosource: “Redemption Songs,” by Maya Jaggi, The Guardian, May 29, 2004.
category: labyrinth, maze, mind, motorway
medium: newspaper profile
“It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. That’s where the suffering comes from.”
Pema Chödrön
more infosource: “Talking to Ourselves,” Shambhala Mountain Center, August 19, 2003.
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category: Buddhism, mind, perspective, school of life, suffering
medium: Q&A
“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1 1931–1934) (New York: The Swallow Press, 1966), 126.
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category: alchemy, introspection, mind, still life
medium: diary
“How small the cosmos (a kangaroo’s pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness.”
Vladimir Nabokov
more infosource: Speak, Memory (New York: Vintage International, 1989), 24.
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category: consciousness, cosmos, kangaroo, mind
medium: autobiography
“Beauty is worth saving. An impractical, beautiful dirt road with a shading canopy can nourish a person’s mind and spirit, and people who are fed by the lovely aspects around them enrich the life of any town.”
Susan Hand Shetterly
more infosource: “Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 124.
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category: beauty, country, health, Maine, mind, nature, nourishment, preservation, road, rural
medium: nonfiction
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