Years and years ago, Ivanhoe started a thread called Spiritual Quotes. What is a “spiritual quote”? It need not be religious; humanistic, philosophical and scientific quotes were fully welcome. Fundamentally, but without a strict definition, it is any quote that might inspire or reflect the human emotion of awe and wonder vis-à-vis some ...[text shortened]... read.php?threadid=20465&page=1.
I thought that perhaps we might have a go at it again . . .[/b]
"...what is strength without a double-share
Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome,
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall
By weakest subtleties, not made to rule,
But to subserve where wisdom bears command."
~John Milton, Samson Agonistes
The true way of progressing through music is to evolve freely, to go forward, not caring what others think, and in this way, together with one’s development in music, to harmonize the life of one’s soul, one’s surroundings and one’s affairs…
If this principle of music were followed, there would be no need for an external religion. Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.
—Hazrat Inayat Khan (a Sufi master from the Chishti order)
"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. When truth is discovered
by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie
(deliberate, contrived, and dishonest) but the myth
(persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic)." -John F. Kennedy