Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is.
―Ernest Hemingway
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She That Seeketh Findeth
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
―Unfolding the Stone, Terence McKenna
Barrage
She especially has no appreciation for all that is “ merely ” striving and not accomplishment. She rather discards, for instance, the honest striving to get to the roots of her trouble, which she has shown in making one serious attempt after another to take up analysis or to analyze herself.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
Determination III
Finally Pilate began to take offense. Although she was hampered by huge ignorances, but not in any way unintelligent, when she realized what her situation in the world was and would probably always be she threw away every assumption she had learned and began at zero. First off, she cut her hair. That was one thing she didn’t want to have to think about anymore. Then she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
―Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison