Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Interpretation
Time and memory shape our perceptions of reality and allow us to adjust them to align with our desires.
This quote by John Dewey suggests that our understanding of reality is not fixed; rather, it is continuously influenced by the passage of time and the memories we hold. As we reflect on our experiences, memories can reshape our perceptions to better align with our innermost wishes and sentiments, highlighting the subjective nature of our reality and the power of our emotions in interpreting our lives.
In practice
During a graduation speech, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of memories in shaping future aspirations.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an βism becomes so involved in reaction against other βisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.
...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.
When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
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