No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
Ken KeseyRead
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Interpretation
One must actively engage with and appreciate life to truly enjoy its beauty.
In this quote, Ken Kesey suggests that mere existence is not enough to fully experience the joys of life. He uses the metaphor of a lizard, which basks in the sun without acknowledging its significance, to illustrate how individuals can take for granted the positive aspects of life without actively appreciating them. The idea of 'praying to the sky' symbolizes the need for gratitude and conscious recognition of the good things around us.
In practice
During a motivational speech about mindfulness.
No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
But I remember one thing:_x000D_ _x000D_ it wasn't me that started acting deaf;_x000D_ _x000D_ it was people that first started acting like_x000D_ _x000D_ I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all
The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Stupid β well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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