"What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions."

-- Rumi

#Drinking Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.”
“Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.”
“At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.”
“The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.”
“The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'”
“For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.”
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.”
“A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.”

Source : "The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge (p. 14), en.wikiquote.org. 1990.

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