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We are normalized into an unworkable imbalance, forever tearing the world into pieces and reifying the need to grasp each answer, each ‘solution,’ and freeze it.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
“These are people who are rooted in a clear sense of identity—who they are, what they love, what they hate, what they value—that gives them a footing to assess a situation.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Caring-about is empty if it does not culminate in caring relations.”
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
human beings cannot ever know what is “really real.” We participate more deeply than we imagine in shaping the world that we perceive.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
His example wasn’t an intellectual but an ethical one.
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Palmer once observed. "The shape of our knowledge becomes the shape of our living; the relation of the knower to the known becomes the relation of the living self to the larger world." Palmer is saying that the way we attend to others determines the kind of person we become. If we see peo... See more
think Mr. Helms addressed a very sad fact in our contemporary culture. Art and spirituality, as I mentioned before, are simply different branches of the same expression of human transcendence.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
To connect Taylor with Ehrenberg, what modernity considers to be a mental ailment is always connected to its ethic, to its assertion of what is good.