Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Interpretation
Understanding oneself requires a connection to nature, yet humans tend to complicate life's simplicity.
This quote by Charles Lindbergh emphasizes the importance of grounding oneself in the natural world to truly grasp one's identity and values. It suggests that while nature and existence are inherently simple, it is the complexities brought on by human actions and thoughts that obscure this simplicity, leading to a disconnect from our true selves and values.
In practice
During a mindfulness seminar, one could use this quote to illustrate the necessity of connecting with nature.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
But now we got weapons _x000D_ _x000D_ Of the chemical dust _x000D_ _x000D_ If fire them we're forced to _x000D_ _x000D_ Then fire them we must _x000D_ _x000D_ One push of the button _x000D_ _x000D_ And a shot the world wide _x000D_ _x000D_ And you never ask questions _x000D_ _x000D_ When God's on your side
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Iβm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you donβt. Move on and move out.
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