“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.” ThinkingTryingMeanHas BeensRealityCircumstancesPainfulSpendingMinistersThings To DoRight ThingPrimePrime MinisterPrivate SectorBorrowingChunksBail Author:John Redwood
“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.” MindMeanStatesMightRememberNiceHigherPainfulState Of MindReincarnationPrevious Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.” ThinkingMenFirstsHeartMeanTwoTurnsSpeakForceVoiceSubjectsDangerHe ManSolitudeEqualApproachPainfulPleasantReasonableYieldAvoiding Author:Leo Tolstoy
“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.” WayMeanArtProblemSituationModernFindingsApproachArt IsPainfulFixedNew WaysDefiniteExpress YourselfBourgeoisModernismModern ArtPainful Situations Book:Bourgeois Source: Bourgeois
“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.” MeanSoulAbleBornReturnBirthEmbracePainfulSeparationLimitationExpansionReunionDissolutionConfinementIndividuation Book:Steppenwolf Source: Steppenwolf