I believe it’s a sin to try to make things last forever.
Everything that exists in time runs out of time someday.
Got to let go of the things that keep you tethered.
Take your place with grace and then be on your way.
Bruce Cockburn
Tag: Wisdom
Radical Honesty
Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth.
Brad Blanton, Ph.D.
Seeing With the Heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Creating the Future
Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
Alvin Toffler
Border Line
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
Being Alone Together
And yet even while I was exulting in my solitude I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson