Jakey's favorite quotes

Nov 16

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.” Swami Vivekananda

Nov 13

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!” Swami Vivekananda

Nov 11

“I believe that everybody in a room together having the same experience creates something. It creates an energy. It creates community. It creates a phenomenon that didn’t exist before, and that in almost a mystical way creates good in the world, and it also empowers people and makes it more likely that they will act.” Tony Kushner

“All cognitive activity is dependent on the initial activation of our integrated sensory / emotional / attentional / system. It’s biologically impossible to learn something if we’re not attending to it, and we don’t attend to things that aren’t emotionally meaningful to us.” Robert Slywester, A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom

“The material was pure and his art was pure, how could the result be other than wonderful?” Henry David Thoreau

Nov 9

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can play a shoestring if you are sincere.” John Coltrane

Nov 8

Cornel West on success vs. greatness (thanks T!)

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)

Oct 31

“…we have to be prepared on the basis of our moral insight to struggle even if we do not know that we are going to win. [It’s weakness] to underestimate the importance of spiritual values. By spiritual values, I mean we as a community can feel something deeper than we are: not that we as a community feel God is on our side, but…some sense of looking down into the heart of things and being able to perceive which way is just, which way is not just. And that’s what we have to convey to people. Not everyone for himself, but all of us for the community.” Mario Savio on the Struggle for Justice