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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published 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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The fall, for Man, is essentially a condensing and fixating within him of powers that were once free, in the sense of non-involvement in a physical body.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Power cannot command love nor money buy it.
Anon
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
The self-conceit of the young is the great source of those dangers to which they are exposed.
Hugh Blair, 1718-1800
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
As the word 'rational' shows us, reason and proportion are inseparable: it is the rational mind that aims to create order and relationship out of the experience of the external world.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The word 'bell' signifies the Being of God (the letter B and el, Hebrew for God), and also that being of God inside each separate human being. An individual is his own bell in such a way as to refind his pure being. If he cannot, his Godness remains still and mute. If he is able to resonate himself he becomes a thing of beauty, as we find indicated in the French belle.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
There are five things which no one in this world can accomplish:
first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
Buddha, BCE 568-488
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616
Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, 1882-1941
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
When it is time to turn over in bed, it is time to turn out.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852
Dionysus, sometimes called Bacchus, was always associated with the power of nature, revelry, wine, satyrs, intoxication with life energy, and it was these forces that Greece as a nation was destined to temper by its stress upon logic, metre in poetry, and formal beauty in art.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Rhythm ... is concerned with points of predictability, whether we are dealing with systems of the cosmos or of the human body.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
How men long for celebrity! Some would willingly sacrifice their lives for fame, and not a few would rather be known by their crimes than not be known at all.
John Sinclair, 1754-1835
As for the lover, his soul dwells in the body of another.
Marcus Porcius Cato, The Elder, BCE 234-149
Man can have Unity if Man will give up Freedom.
W H Auden, 1907-1973
Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
John Ruskin, 1819-1900
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace, BCE 65-8Horace, BCE 65-8
Be wise: soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger, 1583-1640
Cosmically, once God has struck His gong, the time process is initiated and the law established — that is the law of the rotating Universe, in which all things whatever are linked in inevitable cyclic patterns.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Love is that orbit of the restless soul
George Henry Boker, 1823-1890
But how unseemly is it for my sex,
Margaret of Valois, 1553-1615
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Confucius, BCE 551-479
Procrastination is the thief of time:
Edward Young, 1683-1761
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards, 1809-1894
Music is locked in time, and yet it is a way of return to eternity.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Fame is unjust. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Love is the god who gives safety to the city.
Zeno of Elea, c. BCE 490-430
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.
The State is real, the Individual is wicked;
Violence shall synchronise your movements like a tune,
And Terror like a frost shall halt the flood of thinking.
Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
Bounding within the limits of its race
Utmost extremes.
My discipline of arms and chivalry,
My nature, and the terror of my name,
To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint!
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.