The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
Interpretation
People seek places and practices that evoke feelings of purity and connection to something greater than themselves.
In this quote, Michael J. Fox highlights the universal human yearning for purity and spiritual connection, suggesting that rituals and places of worship serve as conduits for individuals to experience profound emotional and spiritual fulfillment. Whether itβs wailing at a wall, praying towards Mecca, or gathering in a church, these actions are driven by a deep-seated desire to reach a state of purity and enlightenment, reflecting our intrinsic search for meaning in life.
In practice
During a speech on seeking inner peace.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
My philosophy has always been that I can sell chinos and T-shirts and $5,000 gowns - they just have to be the best of what they are.
Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
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