To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the dual nature of being on the move: fleeing from detection while simultaneously seeking knowledge and experience.
Jeanette Winterson's quote encapsulates the idea that being in a constant state of movement can serve two purposes: evading unwanted attention or scrutiny, while also pursuing personal growth and enlightenment. It reflects a deeper philosophical perspective on the necessity of exploration and the tension between concealment and discovery in one's life. The act of 'staying on the run' becomes a metaphor for the choices we make in balancing our desires for freedom with the quest for understanding.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about personal development.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
So, how do you get back to heaven? _x000D_ To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. _x000D_ You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. _x000D_ Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use _x000D_ to deprive yourself of happiness. _x000D_ It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, _x000D_ but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts _x000D_ will show you the way home to everything you need.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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