Ideal teachers are those who use themsleves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
Ideal teachers are those who use themsleves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Kazantzakis-- brilliant!
Pap, by any chance do you know the quote from Mr. Kazantzakis about how we are alone in which he used the metaphor of a bloat floating in the fog or the ocean or something to that affect? I remember it from way back in the early 70's but can't recall which book it is from. My sister told me that quote changed her life.
^ My father is a big fan of his work! The man knows most of Kazantzakis' renowned and unknown quotes by heart!.. The one you referred to here must be from his book entitled Ascesis: The Saviors of God.
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be...” ― William Wordsworth
Music is... power: to lift us up, drive our creativity, bolster education, and create jobs. Music is... inspiration: it motivates people all over the world. Music is... connection: we are all born with an instrument – our voices, our hands, our feet. We can all feel music. Music is... something we all share: it is in all of us and about all of us. ~ Denise Burnside (SMASH)
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
But I love my life man it's something to see It's the kids and the dogs and you and me It's the way it's alright when everything goes wrong It's the sound of a slow simple song Chris Stapleton
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“...Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible...”
Lewis CarrollPap, by any chance do you know the quote from Mr. Kazantzakis about how we are alone in which he used the metaphor of a bloat floating in the fog or the ocean or something to that affect? I remember it from way back in the early 70's but can't recall which book it is from. My sister told me that quote changed her life.
--Thomas Pynchon, V.
That's what they want.
Leave them to gather alone,
And they'll only have themselves to feed upon.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Henry David Thoreau
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Joni Mitchell
Don't let the sun go down on me...
'cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me...
Can't seem to hold my head above water
Can't save you
Can't save me
ME
(something said by no one in particular)
Velour Pants
Gary Snyder
It's the kids and the dogs and you and me
It's the way it's alright when everything goes wrong
It's the sound of a slow simple song
Chris Stapleton