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Quote from Jeanette Winterson "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal"

'That there might be a level that we can reach above the ordinary conflict is a seductive one. Yung argued that a conflict can never be resolved on the level at which it arises - at that level there is only a winner and loser, not a reconciliation. The conflict must be got above, like seeing a storm from higher ground...... how absurd it all is - the things that mean so much, the feuds we carry, the irreconcilables'

"Two weeks after Stoner received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist; and before autumn war was all over Europe.  ..............

But for Stoner the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that waited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new  wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn while its true nature remained essentially unchanged. He saw the future in the institution to which he had committed himself and which so imperfectly understood; he conceived himself changing in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object."

​Excerpt (1953 in New York remembered); Diane di Prima
 
"Do you see? It wasn't just the work, though the work was clearly blessed. Nor the rewards, which were none, as far as I knew. It was the life itself - a vocation, like being a hermit or a samurai. A calling. The holiest life that was offered in our world: artist. One that required the purest flame, clear lines of demarcation. Renunciation. 'Sacrifice everything" we would write on apartment walls. "Sacrifice everything to the clean line". Continual offering of our minds and our hearts. Offering impersonally our most personal passion. Most secret vision. What comfort we could give, and give each other. The beauty."

​Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4
 
1. Get enough food to eat,
    and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
    and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
    until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
    and listen to it.
4. 

TedTalk by Margaret Heffernan

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'"When I walked back to the hotel after dinner with Gerry that evening, I found myself in a sort of rapture. It seemed to me that the moon over the Arno was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I had a feeling of being liberated from decades of eptistemological despair - from a world of shallow, irrelevant computer analogies into one full of rich biological meaning, one which corresponded with reality of brain and mind. Edelman's theory was the first truly global theory of individuality and autonomy".  Quote from Oliver Sacks on Gerry Edelman's theory of neuro natural selection.

Understanding that we have the power to create an infinite number of conscious and subconscious connected realities anytime, anywhere (hopefully for good, to learn, to heal, to grow) puts 'a bad day at the office' into perspective!