Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.
Interpretation
Night thoughts reveal deeper insights and secrets that may not be apparent during the day.
This quote by Christa Wolf suggests that our thoughts and reflections at night differ significantly from those during the day. In the quiet and solitude of night, our minds can explore more profound and hidden aspects of our consciousness, revealing truths and insights that daytime distractions often obscure. It implies that these 'night thoughts' hold a unique clarity and depth, allowing us to confront and understand our inner selves more authentically.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a reflective evening gathering with friends.
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
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