Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
Howard ThurmanRead
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
Interpretation
To maintain control over someone, one must know their triggers and weaknesses.
This quote by Howard Thurman emphasizes the importance of understanding how others can manipulate our emotions and reactions. By being aware of the things that upset us or cause us to lose composure, we become more vulnerable to control and subjugation. It suggests that emotional resilience and self-awareness are vital for personal empowerment and freedom from the influence of others.
In practice
During a leadership workshop to illustrate the importance of emotional intelligence.
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
What the world need is people who have come alive.
A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
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