By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the liberation of one is interconnected with the liberation of all, emphasizing collective upliftment.
Edwin Markham's quote speaks to the idea that individual freedom and progress are deeply intertwined with the freedom and progress of others. It posits that true advancement cannot be achieved in isolation; rather, in the journey towards higher states of existence and understanding, we must collectively elevate one another. This reflects a philosophy of interconnectedness and shared humanity, suggesting that we are all bound together in our struggles and triumphs.
In practice
During a speech on social justice.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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