Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
Okay, I’ll play, since Doug was kind enough to post a giggle earlier.
- Grab the nearest book
- Open the book to page 23
- Find the fifth sentence
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
From Suicide and the Soul by James Hillman, page 23, the 5th sentence:
For experience is the soul’s one and only nourishment.
I would credit the origination of this particular meme, but methinks this has been lost in the sands of time.
(The closest book was really Salt & Pepper, a wonderful cookbook I picked up from the library–to enjoy the philosophy and photos, and to copy some recipes–but it didn’t translate to this exercise at all well, so I picked the second closest book.)
