Michel de Salzmann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.
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Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there
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Can I liberate myself from all my concerns and enter the mystery?
-- Michel de Salzmann
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Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
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One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
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