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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published may range from the profound to the flippant. They are NOT offered as examples of eternal verities but merely as 'Food for Thought', and it is for you to judge for yourself whether and to what extent the words used accurately reflect your own beliefs and convictions. |
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One impulse from a vernal wood
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
It is the space, the invisible, that gives significance to the visible.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... life would live itself efficiently if we could eliminate the interferences we have imposed upon it: if we could let ourselves be, without the accumulated rubbish of prejudice, ancestral bias and egotism, all would be well.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Spirit has always had this strange relationship with matter, though both are aspects of each other. Without a mirror for itself, spirit is an unrealised potential; but once the mirror is established there is an apparently agonising gap between the two.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
I steer my barque with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President), 1743-1826
The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and will cannot evolve involuntarily.
G I Gurdjieff, 1873-1949
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
O life! long to the wretched, short to the happy.
Publilius Syrus, BCE 85-43
In art, objective signifies sounds, forms, or gestures at one time known and used, having the capacity to affect all men equally on different levels of their being: this sort of art implies the over-riding of individual differences. Subjective, on the other hand, signifies a stress upon the uniqueness of the individual, and consequently upon variety in the interpretations of the external world.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
If the swan is the pure part of the dual split soul of a human being, we can see in its ugly sister, the goose, the tarnished part. The one moves quietly and with dignity, and the other moves noisily and in a follow-my-leader fashion.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The minor third is to be found universally in folk music, and has a sadness that is felt equally by child and adult. It is one of the most powerfully evocative sounds used by the human race. It is a sound of division and pain — a yearning towards a lost unity.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Life is activity, and depends upon the continuous presence of positive motives for action. Death is the natural suppression of the activity in which life consists. Fear is the presence in a living consciousness of the suppression of the life-activity.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and doing cannot be the result of things which just happen.
G I Gurdjieff, 1873-1949
An idler is a watch that wants both hands:
William Cowper, 1731-1800
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Sir William Osler, 1849-1919
Rhythm in fact, as the Greeks recognised, is the co-ordinating factor in all the arts.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The playing of the violin is the enactment of life itself. The bow, operating on the right side, the side of power, stimulates the universal female womb (left side) giving life to all potential forms within it, symbolised by the fingers of the left hand.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
God wills the development of Man; but, pushing his light, his oil, his love down through the whole octave, he finds the egotism of Man shutting it out.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The immediate and necessary effect of the conquest of fear by reason is that the people in whom it is achieved find themselves trusting and loving one another. The creation of human society depends on this.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E Stevenson, 1900-1965
Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition.
Helena P Blavatsky, 1831-1891
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626?
... energy finds its own order — the order of rhythm.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The name and nature of the perfected violin are prophetic intimations of Man's future. It could not have arrived at any other time in history, any more than Egyptian rites of mummification could have arrived in the twentieth century.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Between a great people and the earth springs a passionate attachment, lifelong — and the earth loves her children and talks with them night and day... Here indeed is the key to the whole secret of education.
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929
The process of social development depends upon maintaining, extending and deepening the range and quality of trust and love, through the continuous conquest of fear.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker, ?1570-1641?
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.