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The Taste of Loneliness
Loneliness I taste. The chair I sit in, the room, the house, none of this has substance.
I think of Hemingway, what we remember of his work is not so much the color of the sky as it is the absolute taste of loneliness.
Loneliness is not, I think, an absolute, but its taste is more powerful than any other. I think that endeavoring to be a serious writer is quite a dangerous career.
~ John Cheever
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Sometimes you’ll spend a lifetime untangling the knots that you didn’t tie.
— J. M. Storm
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Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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— Robert A. Heinlein
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Mystics are people who have a particularly vivid experience of the collective unconscious.
— Jung
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The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that’s happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing…
