Quote of the Day

"An intense love of solitude, distaste for involvement in worldly affairs, persistence in knowing the Self and awareness of the goal of knowing - all this is called true knowledge." - The Bhagavad Gita

(from an old quote calendar that I received for Christmas several years ago)

My Quotation Journal

Here is what an average page in my quotation journal looks like...

I am almost finished with the journal and am working on transferring all the quotes to a Word Document, in case there is ever a fire and all the words get burned to ashes. I hope to give this journal to someone special some day. From my eyes, it is one of the best gifts I could ever give, not only because of what the journal means to me, how precious it is, but also because of all the ideas and bits of life advice it contains.

"I am learning something about the single moment, how rife with potential it is, how truly loud its tick." - Lauren Slater in her essay "Black Swans"

Charlotte Bronte writes, referring to her sisters, "Neither Emily nor Anne was learned; they had no thought of filling their pitchers at the well-spring of other minds."

In "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" (1850) by Charlotte Bronte. Back of the Norton edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Although the quote is sort of sad, I enjoy the image of the mind as a pitcher to be filled with the knowledge of other minds. That is what learning is, right?

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao-Tzu