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Tag: Magnificent ruin

Thoughts

Thoughts seemed to harbor great peril, but their absence even more.

— Magnificent Ruin

Format StatusPosted on July 24, 2020July 20, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags Magnificent ruin, Mind, ThinkingLeave a comment on Thoughts

Nothing

When you have gone through all the layers of the self, its inmost nature, its essence, is nothing. You are nothing.”

— J. Krishnamurti, Public Talk 5, Madras (Chennai), 7 January 1978 (via Magnificent Ruin)

Format StatusPosted on June 25, 2020June 16, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags J. krishnamurti, Magnificent ruin, No-thing, Nothingness, Quote, Quoted, SelfLeave a comment on Nothing

The Horror

The horror of being seen or heard, or any other reminder of your objective existence.”

— MAGNIFICENT RUIN

Format StatusPosted on June 4, 2020June 26, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags Existence, Existentialism, Hell is other people, Magnificent ruinLeave a comment on The Horror

I Know You

I know you by your habits; the grooves you have cut in the world; the familiar boredoms I would miss beyond all else.”

— Magnificent Ruin

Format StatusPosted on May 16, 2020May 16, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags Boredom, knowing, Magnificent ruin, Quote, QuotedLeave a comment on I Know You

The Morning Paper

The morning paper turned out to be the main vector of infection.”

— Magnificent Ruin

Format StatusPosted on March 18, 2020July 11, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags Coronavirus, Covid, Current events, Infection, Magnificent ruin, News, Quote, QuotedLeave a comment on The Morning Paper

Mundanity

There is no more efficient way to expose your own mundanity than through writing. So be it. Perhaps the mundane has some minor value.”

— MAGNIFICENT RUIN

Format StatusPosted on November 27, 2019July 11, 2020Categories CommonplaceTags Magnificent ruin, Mundane, Ordinary, Quote, Quoted, Writing, Writing lifeLeave a comment on Mundanity
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