Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 42
To the Marquis de Lafayette (15 November 1781)
1780s
“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Context: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Also appears in Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Source: In 1962 James Baldwin penned an essay titled “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in “The New York Times Book Review”.
Context: We are the generation that must throw everything into the endeavor to remake America into what we say we want it to be. Without this endeavor, we will perish. ... Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“Everything can be seen as a system because there is nothing you cannot .”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
