02009-03-14 | Quotes, World
Read this quote in an email a friend wrote and traced the source to a Dave Smalley. Fitting words for 2009: culture, education, economy, transportation, jobs – it all points to this:
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
— Dave E. Smalley
02009-02-25 | Quotes
the music of sound » No mind
“The river has no shape, but it takes on the boundaries which it carves out for itself,
so is the mind boundless, until it creates a prison for its own thoughts.”
Can’t find the original source of that quote, but it’s a good one.
02009-02-23 | Quotes
Upaya Newsletter for 2/23/2009
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
02009-02-07 | Internet, Quotes
Twitter / Brian_Eno
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
(Via Beyond the Beyond)
02009-01-19 | Quotes
Every academic discipline has its technical nomenclature. You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It is the word maladjusted…But…there are some things in our society, some things in our world, to which we should never be adjusted. There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial discrimination and racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. We must never adjust ourselves to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.
– Martin Luther King
(Via Upaya Newsletter)
02009-01-14 | Quotes
www.haroldpinter.org – Home
In 1958 Harold Pinter wrote the following:
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?
Not One, Not Two.
