#musing

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I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate?


Isaac Marion


#life #philosophical-musings #reflection #life

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.


R.D. Ronald


#reflection #age

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.


Alberto Moravia


#change

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.


Edith Pargeter


#family #rivalry #family

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.


Anne Baxter


#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#religious #religious

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.


R.D. Ronald


#philosophical #philosophical-musings #life

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.


William Blake


#heresy #iconoclasm #intuitive-ethics #religion #sophistry

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.


Ismail Merchant


#characters #comedy #decided #his #human

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.


Marilyn vos Savant


#been #ever #first #generally #good