"Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody."

--

Richard Rohr

#People Quotes #Splits Quotes #Wholeness Quotes

“Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here”
“It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, "Great. Nailed it." Then I'm like, "No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense." It's a lot of scrambling.”
“He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
“I am not gone but merely walk within you.”
“I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.”

Source : "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.
“People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.”

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