The drama of life

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?

        Alfred Hitchcock, Newsweek magazine

Goosed

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Louis Brandeis, The Brandeis guide to the modern world

Existence

Man does not exist prior to language,
    either as a species or as an individual.

                Roland Barthes, The Rustle of Language

 

 

 

Predicting change

History can predict nothing
except that great changes in human relationships
will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

        Johan Huizinga, In the Shadow of Tomorrow

 

 

 

 

Prayer

I’ll tell you a secret about prayer.
If you complete your prayer
and you are a better person than when you began,
your prayer was answered.

    Rabbi Davie Wolpe, Facebook post

 

 

 

Poem: Be empty of worrying

Be empty of worrying,
Think of who created thought.
Move outside the tangle of
fear-thinking,
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

        Jalal-a-Din Rumi

What's next

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president,
what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied,
"I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

        Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations