"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."

-- Helmut Jahn

#America Quotes #Today Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business
“Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.”
“I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?”

Source : Speech to Parliamentary Press Gallery, 9 June 1980, in 'The Times' 10 June 1980
“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.”
“You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.”
“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.”
“If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.”
“But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.”

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