“Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.”
“It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.”
“Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.”
“It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.”
“The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child s home.”
“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.”
“I will keep reading.”
“. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners”
“Can you imagine a world without books to read?”
“Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn t always liberate you. Instead, it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up -- it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions.”
“If you don t take life seriously, Life will take you, seriously!”
“A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher s knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.”
“I m finding that the older I get, it s not that I learn new things, it s more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.”
“Let your life challenge your sacred existence.”
“I’ll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.”
“If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.”
“The treasures of life is hidden in a book.”