Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea of being inspired by transformative potential and the hope that it brings for the future.
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s quote reflects on the profound experiences of discovering elements that possess the power to incite change and renewal. The 'hidden fire' symbolizes creativity and potential, which ignite feelings of love and hope within us, guiding us towards envisioning a more promising future. This sense of being drawn to what can ignite transformation highlights the human spirit's resilience and eagerness for progress.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a motivational seminar about embracing change.
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.
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