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)
Nothing
Tag: Quoted
The Time of Monsters
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”
— Antonio Gramsci/Slavoj Žižek (via Dense Discovery)
We Plead
“On behalf of all of the black folks of the USA, which are the only group that didn’t vote for the motherfucker, we plead innocent to all charges, claims, accusations, allegations and associations connected to the Klansman in The Oval Office, so help me God.”
— Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods, 2020
Trying to Remember
Trying to remember you
is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance.”
— Stephen Dobyns (via WeCroak)
How Am I Ever
How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
Any Human Anywhere
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
— Doris Lessing (via WeCroak)
One Heart
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.”
Then Whence Evil?
Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
— David Hume
A Guide for People
“I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.”
— Little Richard, Dead at 87
Lisa Marie Blair 