Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav MahlerRead
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
Interpretation
Tradition should be about keeping its spirit alive rather than merely revering what once was.
This quote by Gustav Mahler emphasizes the importance of actively engaging with traditions to maintain their relevance and vitality. Instead of simply honoring past customs or practices as relics, we should embrace and adapt them to keep the 'flame' of their meaning and value alive in our modern lives.
In practice
In a speech about cultural heritage, one might say this quote to inspire the audience to revitalize their traditions.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.
The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.
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