Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," lines 14-19
The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," lines 14-19
The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960)
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Dahr Jamail (1968) American journalist
Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/20/ten_years_later_us_has_left (March 20, 2013), '.
“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary
“Most people see it as they believe it is.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Awakening : Conversations with the Masters (2003), p. 221
Context: "What, concretely, is Enlightenment?"
"Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master.
"Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?"
"Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is."
"What's the difference?"
"The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around."
“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Existence and expediency, p. 85 -->
Context: Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.