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What is your favourite quote and why?
I would like to begin here a compendium of those bits of wisdom humanity perceives to be most true or without exception.
It is not necessary to name who might be credited with saying your selection, as no such person can honestly claim to have been without some outside inspiration, which catalyzed their creativity and moved them to express their insight.
Much like what you are called here to do.
If you yourself have distilled some wisdom through reflection, please allow me to present you this moment to pass it on here for consideration or perhaps start your own string.
The purpose of all this is to provide a most efficient tool for correlating the most valid ideas about morality and what we perceive to be real or important across culture or socialization. I would then like to work with you to turn this soil and see what new things (ideas) might grow. Food for the soul.
You are encouraged to emulate the creative process here so: COPY, COMBINE and TRANSFORM! Help me correlate.
Please comment in a constructive way if you agree or not with anything posted here and explain why.
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Sunny Qureshi
He was a realist asked us to question our assumptions rather than believing on speculations...This has
inspired me here to QUOTE MYSELF:
" ALWAYS QUESTION YOUR ASSUMPTIONS before jumping to a conclusion!!!"" by ' Sunny Qureshi"..
Wayne Busby 30+
I would like to sincerely thank the person, who thought to ask the famous question "If a tree topples in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?"
Maybe there is something I missed here but I always found questions like this to be indicative of our boundless human arrogance. Might sound really depend on the rather limited auditive capacity of a specific and self centred life form, to justify its (sounds) existence?
With all due respect, thank you anonymous.
Ami krieger
douglas macrae smith
One hand clapping creates mainly doubt
Wayne Busby 30+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Please tell me the source for this quote..... I'll appreciate it very much.
earl valen
to think or assume that because the person is not present that a sound event ceases to exist is absurd. that is narcissism bee bop deluxe style. way over the top,..way too much ego involved.
the mind and ego are the death kiss of intuition.
the sound is merely the physical representation of vibration.
tell that to Beethoven. so much for not being able to hear sound and only vibration.
Sunny Qureshi
I think it all has to do with "consciousness" or the image of an object that forms in our brain as a result of the sound. It is the sum total of all my conscious experience at any one moment.Thus there is no seperate, independent, self. The truth of what I am saying is evident in the fact that your 'self' comes into being and goes out of being at the same time as consciousness..
Wayne Busby 30+
I am just looking for insight.
Andre Friedli
The same question with a humorous twist quoted by Ken Robinson in one of his TEDTalks
I love it because it's subversive and funny.
Linda Taylor 50+
Leonardo Guedes 500+
douglas macrae smith
If you read my post carefully, you'll see that 'no one' doesn't even have to be a life form.
Dear Juliette
I am just making an observation about Amis quote : "what is the sound of one hand clapping?.." probably the most popular example of a zen koan. Koans can never be understood because we are bound by our world view
Juliette Zahn 50+
Alex Danzberger
Juliette Zahn 50+
Wayne Busby 30+
...yes just sparring here, forgive.
CK KUMAR
Thanks and regards to you, Sunny.
Sunny Qureshi
Mary M. 100+
Sunny Qureshi