“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any […]
“If a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desktop a sign?” – Albert Einstein
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.” (Erroneously attributed to Benjamin Franklin)
I know, I know,…too romantic, not philological, not correct, but… …no other interpretation gives me the same chills. The choir entry at 1.44 is smashing and the o lamm gottes unschuldig choral by children at 3.01 is breathtaking. Pure beauty and passion. No words. Only gratitude and awareness.
Well,… really moving, rhetoric or not. Keep some kleenex handly 🙂
Some minutes of pure genius with George Carlin… “You have no choice. You have owners. They own you…. They don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table, and think about how badly they’re getting screwed by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. […]
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Pogo
Because if you are not the lead dog, the view never changes…
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
