"No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error."

-- Alexander Lowen

#Errors Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.”
“Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.”
“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.”
“In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the government plays less of a role in people's lives, and so they're living in whatever situation their employment imposes upon them more than they're living in a grand political system.”
“Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.”
“Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.”
“I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.”
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”

Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.

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