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Personal Realities of The Unpleasant Kind
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
— Louise Erdrich
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‘The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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“You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”
— Krishnamurti
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Even if you believe such wrong behavior may be threatening to your own sense of justice, of human rights, and the affirmation of dignity, you cannot for a moment relegate another to a position of value that is beneath your own, for such energy that is created in such relegation serves to make the journey of the other and your own journey more difficult. The energy that flows is an energy that goes in all directions. When you put forward…
