Writing: Create a Context
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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Solitude
ByHeatherYou don’t need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don’t even listen, simply wait.
Don’t even wait.
Be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.— Franz Kafka
Live Life’s Questions
ByHeatherI want to beg you as much as I can . . . to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Take whatever comes with great trust, and if only it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your innermost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Drowning Your Sorrows
ByHeatherPeople who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
— Ann Landers.
Aristotle on Thought
ByHeatherIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
Hope
ByHeatherHope springs eternal in the human heart.
— Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
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