- When you have reached your room, be kind to those who are still in the hall and to those who have chosen different doors. If they are wrong, they need your prayers all the more. And if they are you enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.
- That's you. Oh no, no, it's not me she's talking about. Someone who's life was quite literally saved by music. That's you my boy.
- Well I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona...such a fine sight to see. It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed ford, slowing down to take a look at me.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Post 2.4
By the way, here's something new that will be used from here on out. When the quote has been taken from a context in which it was interspersed with another speaker's words, the second speaker's words will appear in red. Here's your daily dose:
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"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."
This would be great to share with my yoga students at the end of class. When we are in baby pose I tell them that we are beginning a new life, different from the one before X minutes ago. I like the idea of a change in perspective.
New mantra--"I am happy because I think I am."
Glad you do, Dave. I assumed that this site would lose some of its allure (if it has any) if it became possible for you to figure out the relationship shared by any set of quotes. Thus, #5 is my attempt at such an obscure relationship it will keep us all guessing.
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