Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.
I am forever on the way
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.
A teacher in search of hisher own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier. . . The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.