“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.” WholeFunnyForgetFocusEffectsCostDifficultyMediumsProducersThoughtfulPoolPublishingBlogsBloggingBloggers Author:Clay Shirky
“The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.” WantSelfWholeUniverseWishForgetIgnoranceInfiniteWho You AreBurdenEndlessRelease Author:Frederick Lenz
“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.” WarSoulWholeEyeMotherSoundDarkForgetStreetsSweetBrokenWetWidowsButcheryWet Eyes Author:Seneca the Younger
“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.” SelfWholeIndividualLosesForgetSacrificeSocietyProduceLosingImpulseMaskCollectivesWillingnessForget ItReadinessUnwantedCompactRevulsionSlough Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.” KnowsWayImportantWholeStoriesRememberForgetKnow HowImportant ThingsWhole LifeTelling Stories Author:Cynthia Leitich Smith
“It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.” IfsWorldWaySoulWholeLosesForgetGainsSticksFingersWhole WorldYour SoulPrudentSlipping Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.” WorldDifferentWholeTogetherIndividualForgetCitiesLeaderEnemyClassWatchesImagineCallingDevilSittingSightWhole WorldHorribleFlamesSmokingCoveredImagine ThatThronesProvincesBabylonLocality Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.” IfsThinkingMenTryingBelieveDoeIdeasMatterWholeWisdomDiesFunChurchReligiousAnswersForgetExistenceMillionsProducePropertyProductionsPossessionDeafPrestigeMarking TimeExperiencing God Author:Erich Fromm