Leonard Dubrow J.B.PRIESTLEY. 1894-1984. “1929’s The Good Companions”. TO SHOW A CHILD what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own — this is happiness. THE MORE WE ELABORATE our means of communication, the less we communicate. TO … Read more
Q: How can our words be a chant and incense unto the people? The answer . . . Go down deeper than all sounds, to the very heart of the earth and there you shall be alone with Him who walks upon the Milky Way. KHALIL GIBRAN. “The Garden of the Prophet” THE LONGER I LIVE … Read more
JAMES THOMSON 1700-1748. “The Seasons”, “The Castle of Innocence”. INGRATITUDE IS TREASON TO MANKIND. … Read more
WHAT IF our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water — the rivers, lakes and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was … Read more
KNOWING OTHERS IS WISDOM, KNOWING YOURSELF IS ENLIGHTENMENT. LAO TZU DEATH is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright. ALICE THOMAS ELLIS THE ANSWER TO OLD AGE is to keep one’s mind busy & to go on with one’s life … Read more
THE ASSUMPTION that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. … Read more
For me the novel is character creation. Style is nice, plot is nice, structure is OK, social significance is OK, symbolism worms its way in, timeliness is OK too, but unless the characters convince and live the book’s got no chance. LARRY MCMURTRY ONE OF THE SADDEST LESSONS OF HISTORY is … Read more
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO REINVENT YOURSELF. START A NEW career at 40. Fall in love at 50. Learn to dance at 60. Start a whole new life at 70. Stop saying you can’t. You can and you should. Dreams don’t have an expiration date. Life begins at 80. Younger I didn’t appreciate being … Read more
THE DEEP CRITICAL THINKER has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people. CARL JUNG THE HORRORS and sufferings that I experienced in my … Read more
LAUGHTER IS THE BRUSH THAT SWEEPS AWAY THE COBWEBS OF YOUR HEART. MORT WALKER MEN CAN STARVE from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread. IN HATRED AS IN LOVE, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. … Read more
