"There is no spirituality without ethics"

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Jonathan Wittenberg

#Ethics Quotes #Spirituality Quotes #Judaism Quotes

“Love is the process of melting into the other”
“I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should do the same. You have no thoughts of becoming the little mermaid, so that's why I'll be come the little mermaid instead. I'll be right next to you as if I am not there and disappear like foam. So right now, I am the one shamelessly hanging on to you.”
“If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.”
“Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Arts: Collected Essays". Book by Bert Olivier, 2009.
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.”

Source : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.”
“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.”

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