Posts by: Peter Laurance Oliver
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xii – He felt that myth offered a framework for personal growth and transformation, and that understanding the ways that myth and symbols affect the individual mind offered a way to lead a life that was in tune with one’s nature–a pathway to bliss.
xvi – Of course, in trying to relate [...]
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20 – “Let’s go and see everybody,” said Pooh. “Because when you’ve been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody’s house, and he says, ‘Hallo, Pooh, you’re just in time for a little smackerel of something,’ and you are, then it’s what I call [...]
18 – In some ways the self-discipline and restraints necessary to execute an idea can feel like a tremendous compromise of your very essence as a creative person.
34 – Every project in life can be reduced into three primary components. Action steps are the specific, concrete tasks that inch you forward: redraft and send [...]
9 – “To be human is precisely to have that extra circuit of consciousness which enables us to know that we know, and thus to take an attitude towards all that we experience. The mistake we have made–and this, if anything, is the fall of man–is to suppose that that extra circuit, that ability to [...]
10 “Hence the things that we love tell us who we are.”
12 “Too many ascetics fail to become great saints precisely because their rules and ascetic practices have merely deadened their humanity instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.”
14 “Our five senses are [...]
There is no use to plan for the future unless you can live completely in the present. Unless you can do that, when the future arrives you won’t be there.
Alan Watts – Life Magazine – April 21st, 1961
32 “…his spontaneous prose style seems to insist that readers believe they are experiencing the text as it is being written, so Kerouac relies on a modified use of the suspension of disbelief; he welcomes readers to join him in the present moment. The Romantics, also masters of thsi technique, wished to create the sense [...]
6 “Marcus Aurelius cautioned us to remember ‘that very little was needed to make a happy life.’”
6 “Leisure is the foundation of culture beyond the utilitarian world.”
7 “Play is the free, pleasurable, immediate, and natural expression of animals, particularly the young.”
7 “‘Children are happy because they find their pleasure in the immediate [...]
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