If you're smart or rich or lucky _x000D_ Maybe you'll beat the laws of man _x000D_ But the inner laws of spirit _x000D_ And the outer laws of nature _x000D_ No man can
Interpretation
True success comes from understanding and respecting both spiritual and natural laws rather than just personal achievement.
In this quote, Joni Mitchell emphasizes that while intelligence, wealth, or luck may allow someone to circumvent societal rules, they ultimately cannot escape the deeper laws that govern the spirit and the natural world. It suggests a recognition of accountability to universal principles that go beyond human constructs and urges a profound respect for the interconnectedness of existence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about the importance of integrity and respect for nature.
There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
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