In youth, one learns to talk; in maturity, one learns to be silent. This is our problem: that we learn to talk before we learn to be silent.”
— Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Quotes
Nature’s Forces
Women run the world; we men don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And wisdom comes from accepting this.”
– Me
Mind+Body=?
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”
— Teilhard de Chardin
Iconoclastics 101
Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
Summation
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Bumpersticker seen this afternoon (2505.21)
Encyclopedic Errant
It is necessary,” answered Don Quixote, “to know everything in the profession I follow.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Not Another Word
Silence is the language of God. Everything else is a poor translation.”
— Rumi
Best Advice Ever
LAUGH. SEE?”
— J.R. “Bob” Dobbs
Litmus Test
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick
Me Too
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
— Thos. Jefferson
Never Said Better
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.”
— Albert Camus
Truth To Tell
I’m not here. I’m an event. I’m an improbable coalescence of stardust enjoying one fleeting, glorious dance through the cosmos before … poof.”
— Adrian Bliss