Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - only recognise them - Edward Murrow http://bit.ly/kCNQxL
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now - Rainer Maria Rilke
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more - Jules Renard
All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again - Jeff Buckley http://j.mp/10sgcrk
Leonard Cohen's adaptation of Frank Scott's Villanelle for Our Time calls us to now let the lesser loyalties depart and to rise, to rise and play a greater part...
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices; only recognise them - Edward Murrow
Is it a wrong approach, as one leading journalist claimed, to start with your favourite quality or value (freedom, equality, justice etc), and then try to imagine what a society would look like if it were arranged to maximise that quality?
Should we, instead, examine the political and cultural institutions we already have and work from there, as failure to do this might lead to incoherence and fantasy?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained - Mark Twain
When one considers our world from a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent - Anonymous
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate - C.G. Jung