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- [Journal XXXVIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxviii/) - After an expansive experience that challenges our narrow way of being in the world, we often retreat instead of pressing forward into the unknown. - Lisa Marchiano If you abandon reason, you will have nothing to guide you but the emotional depth of the situation—what Heidegger called 'the depth of the call.' And in the
- [Journal XXXVI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxvi/) - A notorious beginner of enterprises and non-finisher, partly through lack of time, partly through lack of single-minded concentration, I still wonder how and why I managed to peg away at this thing year after year, often under real difficulties... - J.R.R. Tolkien If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up
- [Journal XII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xii/) - Though weary with your worldly belongings In the subway car of your heart Give priority seating To the Beloved - Fannie Flagg Every day I write a poem titled ‘Tomorrow.’ It is a handwritten list of the people I know who love me. I make sure to put my own name at the top. -
- [Journal XXXVII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxvii/) - If you're not playful, you're not alive. - David Hockney The ‘Enlightenment’, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. - Michel Foucault Obstacles are the universe's hubs of unspeakable creativity, redeeming us from tired victories, from the banality of crossing the finish line, from the soundtrack of getting everything we want, and especially from
- [Journal](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal/) - The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato ON STARTING your ideas are fish you are trying to catch with your bare hands only with a quiet mind is the surface glassy enough for you to plunge your arms below hold on to the squirming gift wide-eyed & fat stunned at
- [Journal XXX](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxx/) - How odd, I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. - David Foster Wallace NON-ATTAINMENT In spiritual traditions non-acquisitiveness is essential to fulfillment. To live a happy, healthy life it is essential to relinquish the quest to simply get more - more cash, more power, or more fame - because
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- [Journal XXXV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxv/) - STRONG AND SOFT All too often our so-called strength comes from fear, not love. Instead of having a strong back, many of us have a defended front, shielding a weak spine. In other words, we walk around brittle and defensive, trying to conceal our lack of confidence. If we strengthen our backs, metaphorically speaking, and
- [Journal XXXIV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxiv/) - I keep my research going, looking for sentiments in the world. - Renee Gladman In any society where government does not express or represent the moral community of the citizens, but is instead a set of institutional arrangements for imposing a bureaucratized unity on a society which lacks genuine moral consensus, the nature of political
- [Journal VIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-viii/) - Gary Snyder: READING BASHÔ ON THE PLANE Between lectures, This little seat by the window My hermitage. BOOK POWER by Gwendolyn Brooks BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND CHORTLE AND COLLIDE In all this willful world of thud and thump and thunder man’s relevance to books continues to declare. Books are meat and medicine and flame
- [Journal XIX](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xix/) - In these stones horizons sing creating truth like glass from inspiration’s furnace. - Gwyneth Lewis Poems don't just happen. They are luckily or stealthily related to a readiness within ourselves. - William Stafford Be a Warrior of Love, Not Hate And by warrior, I mean—carrier. And by carrier, I mean sacred guardian. And by sacred
- [Journal X](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-x/) - One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. - William Irwin Thompson Descend And what of those who have no voice and no belief, dumbstruck and hurt by love,
- [Journal XXIX](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxix/) - We are running out of poetic ways to say this: life in Gaza is as precious as anywhere else on this earth. It must be protected with the same commitment and rigor and devotion. - Hala Alyan while i am absolutely still engaged, i am also old. and tired. been at actively trying to avoid
- [Journal XXXIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxiii/) - The Tune of Things Is consciousness God? by Christian Wiman A 1980 case study from England depicts a young man with an IQ of 126, excellent performance in his university classes, normal social skills, and basically no brain. Trees can anticipate, cooperate, and remember, in the ordinary sense of those terms. Albert Einstein credited all
- [Journal V](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-v/) - Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous 'recurrence of birth' (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. – Joseph Campbell The transformation
- [Bio](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/bio/) - Jeremy Elbert earned a Master's Degree in Information and Communication Technology with an Emphasis in Web Design and Development from the University of Denver with a 3.73 GPA and a Bachelor's Degree in Film Studies through the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado. He also studied Nordic Studies
- [Journal XXIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxiii/) - When I travel, I carry around a notebook with me. I use notebooks a lot because my brain tends to live in the moment. I’m always afraid of forgetting something. - Lydia Davis Even these people have become more cowardly, which wouldn’t be so bad if they were conscious of it. But I think they
- [Journal XXXII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxii/) - You are a songbird right this minute. Today you're a better songbird than you was yesterday, 'cause you know a little bit more, you seen a little bit more, and all you got to do is just park yourself under a shade tree, or maybe at a desk, if you still got a desk, and
- [Journal XI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xi/) - YOUR MIND IS A SPONGE Your mind is a sponge. Built to absorb what’s around you. Creativity depends on there being a box Of ideas and sounds, images and emotions Stored away in your brain That you can call up at will To reshape in your own vision, To mold some sense from this Rubble
- [Journal XXXI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxxi/) - Go now selkie-boy, swim from the shore, Rinse your ears clean of human chatter... - Spell Songs, from the Lost Words The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. - Oscar Wilde for DP the way to write things down? jot them, paint them, type them– slow the flow
- [Journal XIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xiii/) - The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions. - Parker J. Palmer There is Something About a Forest That Compels Introspection - Eloise J. Roorbach Photography is like fishing. Why can’t we all just catch and release? Somehow that seems like a more ethical form of photography. Like, we could go
- [Journal IX](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-ix/) - It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status
- [Journal XVII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xvii/) - Save your creative soul: make something beautiful without the intention of monetizing it. - McCall Erickson Every time I try to take an even remotely challenging hike, I have to remind myself that I have other skills and qualities. - Jane Huffman ...she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm.
- [Journal XXVIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxviii/) - it's as if I've interrupted something that was falling in a straight line from the eye of God - Alice Oswald If you want to understand contemporary culture, you must realize that the internal state of most people is defined by a baseline grief-shame for which they do not have adequate language, and a painful
- [Journal IV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-iv/) - All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. - Joseph Brodsky But then you lit the lamp and that was it. It was no sudden and miraculous glow But the warm comfort of one window lit Against the greyness I had come to be, And I stood weary and I saw it so, And
- [Journal XXVII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxvii/) - Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. - Victor Hugo The deepest abyss is the inability to be alone. - H. P. Lovecraft hiking date she trips over her words - @Andddrrrew How to Live Depravity begins with thinking of love as a radical act. I quit loving with difficulty. I love easy
- [Journal III](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-iii/) - I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. .... the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth - Adrienne Rich When we
- [Journal VII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-vii/) - Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. - Rainer Maria Rilke I read, of course, but what I miss is the kind of reading I used to do, which seemed to require that the world be very different from what it has become. - Sven Birkets Yes, talking to poets
- [Journal XXV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxv/) - scream Vote so that one day a hundred years from now another sister will not have to dry her tears wondering where in history she lost her voice. - jasmin kaur All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. - Robert Hass Some voted their love. Some voted
- [Journal VI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-vi/) - For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in It’s Human Form Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering
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- [Journal XXVI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxvi/) - It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. - Haruki Murakami How little we still commit ourselves to living. We should grow like a tree that likewise does not know its law. We tie ourselves up with intentions, not mindful of
- [Journal II](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-ii/) - To Margaret, the Librarian It was a librarian who first showed me how to properly open a book. The rest is all my fault. - Sam Hamill Here's to mountain-and-forest feelings flourishing... "On Returning to My Mountains, for the Ch'an Abbot Clarity-Deep" I heard the unborn inner pattern young but we rarely follow mind's deep
- [Journal XV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xv/) - Found Maybe it’s all utterly meaningless. Maybe it’s all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we’re in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us… The unexpected sound of your name on
- [Journal  XVI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xvi/) - I should have admitted more often how little I knew, and more teachers would have appeared. I should have known that suffering shouldn't be suppressed, because suffering is a great teacher. - Marlon Brando Our questions (in second half of life) may now be different from before, asking, for instance, if we cultivated a great
- [Journal I](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-i/) - O spirit of poetry, souls of those I have loved, come back to teach me again. - Edward Hirsch I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are
- [Journal XXIV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxiv/) - All literature is literature in translation. There is no mother tongue. All of it migrates out of the body, out of a tangle of sensations and intuitions, obscure rancor and desire; we hunt racks of ready-made language for words that might fit. - Parul Sehgal The best thing you can do for your fellow, next
- [Journal XXI](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxi/) - The old diary wants nothing to do with me now that it is full - Clark Strand I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward. - Hannah Harrington The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I create it. - James Baldwin Consequently we should
- [Journal XXII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xxii/) - We forget so much. All those memories of great meals, travel, landscapes, conversations, insights, theater, and scenes in distant cities, moments you swore you’d remember forever, so many washed away like Etch A Sketch drawings. - Anne Lamott The Zen way of teaching teaches one to see that you cannot be in complete control of
- [Journal XIV](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xiv/) - I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards
- [Journal XX](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xx/) - Integration is more important than acceleration. - Darion Gracen Every collaboration helps you grow. - Brian Eno There is reason after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend. - James Baldwin Sometimes you need a “stop doing” list as badly as you do a
- [Journal XVIII](https://www.brightedgejournal.com/journal-xviii/) - Dreamers Dream, Writers Write. - Rex Fowler …the striving itself is of intrinsic value. - Karen Horney Always remember, your focus determines your reality. - George Lucas this then is the lens to magnify ignite redeem and willingly defy - June Jordan Where you apply focus matters more than how much focus you have. In