“LIFE is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.” Hazrat Inaayat Khan
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 1809-1892 “CHARGE OF LIGHT BRIGADE”
WE ARE ALL A PART OF EVERY PERSON WE HAVE EVER MET.
IT’S BETTER to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
THE SHELL MUST BREAK BEFORE THE BIRD CAN FLY.
MORE THINGS ARE WROUGHT BY PRAYER THAN THIS WORLD DREAMS OF.
OURS IS NOT TO WONDER WHY. OURS IS JUST TO DO OR DIE.
KNOWLEDGE COMES, BUT WISDOM LINGERS.
TO STIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND AND NOT TO YIELD.
FAITH IS BELIEVING WHAT WE CANNOT PROVE.
SELF-REVERENCE, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
WORDS, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
OUR ECHOES roll from soul to soul. and grow for ever and for ever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850-1893 “NANA”
PATRIOTISM IS A KIND OF RELIGION; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
YOU’VE NEVER LIVED UNTIL YOU’VE ALMOST DIED. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR IT, LIFE HAS A FLAVOR THE PROTECTED SHELL NEVER KNEW.
ABSTINENCE IS THE GREATEST FORM OF PERVERSION.
THERE IS ONLY ONE GOOD THING IN LIFE, AND THAT IS LOVE.
A SICK THOUGHT CAN DEVOUR THE BODY’S FLESH MORE THAN FEVER OR COSUMPTION.
YOU HAVE THE ARMY OF MEDIOCRITIES followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
WENDELL BERRY 1934—-“Given”
THE CARE OF THE EARTH is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
WE HAVE LIVED OUR LIVES by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that which is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
IT MAY BE that when we no longer know . . . which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
A COMMUNITY is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
TO ALL YOU GREAT PEOPLE: HAVE FUN