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24 Jun 2025 00:17

Past, present, future. 🤍

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23 Jun 2025 18:12

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"Anyone who is disposed to emphasize the defects of traditional civilizations would do well to look dispassionately at our modern progressive–and therefore non-traditional –civilization, and to look at it as it is, and not at what he thinks it is meant to be, or could be if only we could overcome this or that problem, or if only so-and-so would see sense. He should look at what it has in fact produced in the way of contentment, peace, beauty, or freedom, and then at what it has in fact produced in the way of anxiety, war and rivalry, and ugliness (in the despoiling of Nature and in the arts), and subjection to its own insatiable desires and to the inexhaustible demands of the machine..."

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21 Jun 2025 06:20

"Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’ — that is the motto of enlightenment."

~Immanuel Kant

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21 Jun 2025 02:18

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20 Jun 2025 22:29

"Not only is it summer solstice, there is a full moon. May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day."

William Shakespeare

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17 Jun 2025 06:20

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”

~Plotinus, The Enneads

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17 Jun 2025 02:18

Home made is the best. 🤍

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14 Jun 2025 04:19

Speak the truth and shame the devil.

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14 Jun 2025 00:17

"Under all explicit opposition, there is implicit unity."

~Alan Watts

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23 Jun 2025 18:13

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"...Then he should consider, no less dispassionately, what its prospects of durability appear to be, bearing in mind that all its present tendencies are bound to be accentuated in the future, their accentuation being in fact its principal objective. More and more and faster and faster is the cry, as if the end of a continuous quantitative expansion could be anything but dispersion and fragmentation, either gradual or explosive.“


~Lord Northbourne

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21 Jun 2025 04:19

"The Poem of the Soul" painting series, 1835-1881.

~Louis Janmot

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20 Jun 2025 19:04

“Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”

~George Santayana

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17 Jun 2025 02:06

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

Jacques Cousteau

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16 Jun 2025 18:13

"As long as we are thinking of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing the sand and sowing the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of the spirit. Collective activities are, of course, necessary, but this is the end to which they are necessary.”

~C.S. Lewis

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14 Jun 2025 07:06

"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us."

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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13 Jun 2025 22:43

“Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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