Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.
Interpretation
Embracing errors is essential for growth and progress in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of making mistakes as a natural part of the human experience. It suggests that small errors are vital for learning and evolution, while acknowledging that significant mistakes can lead to serious consequences. The overall message is that errors should be viewed as opportunities for growth and movement, rather than as failures that inhibit life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of resilience, this quote can highlight how embracing our mistakes leads to personal development.
The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.
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