Posted in quotes on Jul 4th, 2008 No Comments »
[Patriotism] I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power—-to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect of all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied […]
Posted in quotes on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
…been busy taking care of business with both mother and partner recovering from major surgeries. Everything is looking good. perhaps ironically my hermetic phase is pulled a bit by the demands but, as always, knowing in the final analysis very little about much at all, at the beginning of the day one can choose to […]
Posted in quotes on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
If you are not pursuing some damn dream and then reinventing yourself regularly, assiduously, you’re going to fail. Period. — If you are not growing today, if you can’t demonstrably say at the end of the year I have learned some new stuff and tried some new stuff, then you’ve fallen back.And there just isn’t […]
Posted in psychology, quotes on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
“I come to life and enjoy myself only when I am respectfully asked questions about my work.” –Psychologist Abraham Maslow
Posted in quotes on Feb 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Since a wise man can be mistaken, and a hundred men, and many nations, yes, and human nature is mistaken for many centuries about this or that, what assurance have we that sometimes it stops being mistaken, and in this century it is not making a mistake? –Montaigne
Posted in creativity, quotes on Jan 16th, 2007 No Comments »
The drive to share the truth that (s)he sees is the heart’s blood of every creator’s vision.–Creativity researcher, John Briggs
Posted in a-ha!, quotes on Jan 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
– Margaret Mead
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
– Paul Feyerabend
Hat tip to: afewlinesmore.blogspot.com, not active but still around.
Posted in adult learning, quotes on Dec 16th, 2006 No Comments »
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
-Epictetus
Posted in quotes on Oct 10th, 2006 No Comments »
What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he […]
Posted in a-ha!, humor, quotes on Aug 13th, 2005 No Comments »
…believe but be scientific; be mystical without mystification…
Krassner. “My only sacred cow is I have no sacred cows.”
Lilly. “My beliefs are unbelievable.”
Tolle. “I’ve met several Zen masters, all of them are cats”
unknown. Everything we think we know only serves to obscure our unknown ignorance. (Found as part of the constructivist ‘prayer’)
Alice O. Howell […]
Posted in quotes, resources, sufism on May 7th, 2005 No Comments »
If you could give up tricks and cleverness, this would be the cleverest trick!
Rumi was one of the great lanterns of experiential spirituality and Sufism. Today, not only is Rumi the most read poet in the world, his work imbues many spiritual ’schools’ with important psychological, esoteric and yogic principles and methods.
Who was Rumi? What […]
Posted in a-ha!, music, quotes on Apr 19th, 2005 No Comments »
We don’t determine music,
The music determines us;
We only follow it
To the end of our life:
Then it goes on without us.
Steve Lacy
No doubt the genius player is shocking angels right now with single notes.
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