Archive For The “The Mind Game” Category
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear. ― Stephen King Nighttime can be a fright time. Let me tell you a true story. Happened just a few days ago. Make of it what you will. It’s late at night. I’m alone. I’m…
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore When it was his time, whenever it was God decided, the old man just wanted his ashes to decorate a warm blue sea. Where a fish might drink him and a bird might take…
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare Why Quieting Your Mind is Key to Unlocking a Better Life Ryan Holiday on saying no, staying calm, and the costs of chasing after the wrong things. BY CLAY SKIPPER for GQ With the books Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle…
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. – Carl Jung Black is a color. And white is a color, too. Red. Brown. Yellow. You.
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We…
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela Imagine you only believe what you already think you know. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT. Imagine you only hear from others what you have…
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed. – Kanye West Sometimes I feel like Kanye, sometimes I don’t. First couple lines of a poem I didn’t write. Wrote those lines back when I could…
I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali We’re living in a dumbed-down culture because the education of most people in America is sad and not…
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Admittedly, he’d had too much to drink the night before. She was brown and…
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. – Chinese Proverb Most of the time we live on the back of a tiger. And most of the time, the tiger is sleeping. We get to concentrate on being writers, parents; we know who we are and what we’re trying to do. Then every so…