Never to speak about oneself is a very noble piece of hypocrisy.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
“Just because the Bible says “Jesus is the Lamb of God,” it doesn’t follow that Mary had a little lamb.”
what you will love most is to walk on the earth
“One of the attractions of the UU approach to religion and life is caught in the assertion that divinity and spirit are to be found not through blind faith but through finding and sending down roots to the deepest part of one’s unique self. As is true in botany, those roots spread out into the wider community and can nourish us and give us a healthy life. How do we know when we are living in the best place for those roots to grow? In so much as we do indeed “grow a soul” we should consider carefully the garden in which that soul grows.” - Bob Lane
“For a generous psychology.
We help a person more by giving him a favorable image of himself than by constantly reminding him of his shortcomings. Each individual normally strives to resemble his best image. Can be applied to teaching, to history, to philosophy, to politics. We are for instance the result of twenty centuries of Christian imagery. For two thousand years man has been offered a humiliating image of himself. The result is obvious. Anyway, who can say what we should be if those twenty centuries had clung to the ancient ideal with its beautiful human face.” Albert Camus — Notebooks
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. -Albert Einstein
“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible”.
“You must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it’s done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable , 1959, p.418)
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
