The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James JoyceRead
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Interpretation
Mistakes can lead us to new understanding and insights.
James Joyce suggests that errors and failures are not merely setbacks but valuable opportunities for learning and growth. Each mistake we make opens a door to new discoveries, allowing us to gain deeper insights about ourselves and the world around us.
In practice
This quote can be used during a workshop on personal development.
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
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