quotes
Nick Cave on Brighton
I feel very connected to the area, very much a part of it,” he muses. “I have a strange sense of belonging which I’ve never really felt since I left Australia - in fact, I never really felt it in Australia. Walking along I have found that I have these weird feelings, feelings I’ve never really had before, of a real love towards the place. I’m here for the duration. The duration of my life.
Nick Cave talking about Brighton, from an exclusive interview by Bella Todd, in Brighton and Hove’s The Argus newspaper.
Fortune Cookie Wisdom
People who value their privileges above their principles will soon lose both
Gra’s first law:
Thoughful reflection conserves human energy and time.
I thought this one up after reading the Edge’s World Question Center 2004 “What’s your Law?”, where a whole lot of thinkers propose a law of their own. A few moments thought and it popped out.
It is not quite worded right yet. I’ll keep thinking and see if I can find the right pithy expression of what I am trying to say. I’m really on about how important it is to think before acting. Failure to think before acting wastes your time and energy and does the same to the people around you. This can be as simple as the old chestnut of locking the keys in the car. It goes a lot deeper as well.
Note: I’m making this law because I need to be reminded this, not because I have all seeing wisdom and immense reflective powers :-P
Another quote of the day
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
From rigpa.org’s Glimpse of the Day.
Quote of the day
From a fortune cookie:
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty. And the pig likes it.