You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly!!
Rumi (1207-1273 Persian poet and Sufi mystic)
“The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men.
We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.”
— Tom Robbins
Amazing and moving. Really unbelievable.
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Enescu’s Ciocarlia in a fantastic interpretation by Grigoras Dinicu. Unbelievable!
“Every day we are exchanging our life energy for what we do, and the trade better be worth it.”
John Assaraf
Uhm…
I have to admit that this kind of stuff makes me a little nervous…
“Vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas”
“perversi difficile corriguntur et stultorum infinitus est numerus”
Ecclesiastes, Vulgata version, 1,2 – 1,15
(Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.)
“Freedom, liberation, this must be the aim of man. To become free, to be liberated from slavery: this is what a man ought to strive for, when he becomes even a little conscious of his position. There is nothing else for him, and nothing else is possible so long as he remains a slave both inwardly and outwardly. But he cannot cease to be a slave outwardly while he remains a slave inwardly. Therefore in order to be free, things, man must gain inner freedom.”
G.I. Gurdjieff
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
Ophelia, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
