Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 11
My voyages are my native land.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Comment: This is what Odysseus says as he sets out on his voyages again in Kazantakis's monumental "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel"
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Wisdom 12
He either fears his fate too much
Or his deserts are small
That dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all
Montrose
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Wisdom 13
It is too easy rebelling against others;
you have to rebel against yourself.
Pierre Boulez
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Wisdom 14
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject.
For both have labored in the search for truth
and both have helped us in the finding of it.
Thomas Aquinas
Comment: With thanks to Mary Lou Michael, who first showed me this wisdom.
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Wisdom 15
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect
that no one will need to be good.
T. S. Eliot
Source: Choruses from "The Rock" VI
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Wisdom 16
Why not?
Jeremy Leven
Source: Screenwriter of *Don Juan de Marco*
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Wisdom 17
You can’t get there from not here.
Richard Moon
Source: Quoted in The Peace Book by Louise Diamond
Comment: Richard Moon is an Aikido Master
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Wisdom 18
The place God calls you to is the place
where your deep gladness
and the world's deep hunger
meet.
Frederick Buechner
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Wisdom 19
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
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Wisdom 20
Although we know
the end of the maze holds death,
I see now that
the path I choose through the maze
makes me what I am.
Daniel Keyes
Source: Flowers for Algernon
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