“Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.” MaySeemsAbleEnjoyFantasyEverydayFantasticPerceiveLacking Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.” WritingBelieveWellsMayMomentsHelpingProblemHandsAsksHugeWasteLettersEverydayDetailsManageIntimateMailSingle MomEnvelopesBundlesImplicitPersonal Problems Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMindMayReligionTermInterestingHealingMedicineEverydayAffairStrikesDullRitualSermonsCeremony Book:Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems Source: Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems
“Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.” WellsMayEconomyCenturyKeysEverydayComplexityEveryday Life21st Century Author:Jamais Cascio
“The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility” ThinkingMayStillsFactsShowsSeemsEyeCenturyEverydayInterpretationPhenomenonBlindnessInnateUtilityCommonplaceNineteenth CenturyEpochUtilitarian Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset