Jung

 

Baldwin

 

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

 Paul Valéry 

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. Paul Valéry

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

 ― Paul Valéry, An Anthology 

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.

― Paul Valery 

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

― Paul Valery 

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

― Paul Valéry 

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

Poems are never finished - just abandoned.

 Paul Valéry

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valéry

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. Paul Valéry

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau

Certain subjects just need time

I think that when you’re trying to do something prematurely, it just won’t come. Certain subjects just need time. . . . You’ve got to wait before you write about them.

Joyce Carol Oates

Eggplant Parmesan without Frying

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write it down making it clear

Remember what the noises were and what was said. Find what gave you the emotion; what the action was that gave you the excitement. Then write it down making it clear so the reader will see it too and have the same feeling that you had. That's a five finger exercise.

Ernest Hemingway

exercise is essential for your brain health and to help balance your moods

Josh Marshall

I’ve written a few times recently about Donald Trump’s ability to stake out and hold territory in the public mind, the public attention span, with threats that he likely (though not certainly) can’t make good on or won’t even have the attention span or care enough to focus on. So he’ll end birthright citizenship or he’ll jail his opponents. Or maybe not. It’s part of his ability to always be taking the initiative on that mutable and uncanny territory where media narratives and old fashioned reality become a common fabric. He acts and keeps acting and his opponents react and keep reacting.

I was reminded of a central example of this this morning, something that happened again and again in his first term. He muses publicly about his sole and unchallenged right to make some decision or choice that in practice he knows nothing about. Usually he has no right to make that choice. Often he has no ability to make that choice. The fact that he has no ability to make such a choice in any remotely informed way adds to the angst many feel hearing his comments. It’s the essence of the power, a multiple-layered onion of gaslighting and itself a factor in keeping everyone off balance. It is, and is intended to serve as, a kind of meditation and magnification of his arbitrary power, how we’re all living not just in his world but in his will. 

Josh Marshall Consistency, Mind Games and Power-Plays in the Brave New World of Weird

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.

Anne Lamott

Fear is the cause of every problem. It’s the root of all prejudices and the negative emotions of anger, jealousy, and possessiveness. If you had no fear, you could be perfectly happy living in this world.

Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself