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Jan 17, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson |Jim Morrison
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You relinquish your ability to feel and put on a mask in exchange. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."— Jim MorrisonI was freezing last night; my usual sweats and no-shirt attire had me snuggling with my wife; we were under the blankets.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms shuttered and dank.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson |Joss Whedon
"Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms shuttered and dank.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."— SenecaHappy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"A human being is a part of the whole universe called by us, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson |Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of the whole universe called by us, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Happy Friday! You made it another week, the first week of 2024; how are you doing now? I’m rested, this might be the best week of sleep I’ve got in a long time, and that is saying something. I have switched out my nightly glass of wine for a glass of tea, and it is having an impact.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible anymore; you just need things to be certain." — Monica Ali Good morning, and happy Thursday. How are you now? I got another great night's sleep. We were in bed by 9:15, and I finished my book and started another; according to my OURA ring, I slept a little over 8 hours and 30 minutes. I woke up rested, and my ring encouraged me to do something I enjoy; I’ll take that under advisement. Read →
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson
"Memory is a mean thing, repeatedly slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors. A moment of humiliation, devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free?"
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
ansonrossthompson.substack.com | Anson Ross Thompson |Emily Pan
"Memory is a mean thing, repeatedly slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors. A moment of humiliation, devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it?
