“Pausing for a moment of mindfulness attention to observe the person in front of you will help you to slow down and connect more purposefully.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Personal responsibilities cannot compensate for societal irresponsibility”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“I live as lamp to the world not another lamb.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“If you are so far above the society you live in, you feel like you are in a very deserted street, in a wonderfully quiet place, a real paradise, far from all that primitive shouting, from the pitiful nonsense of all kinds of irrationality, from that real hell called stupidity and ignorance!”
“A society whose ideas are different but whose faces are similar is always superior to a society whose ideas are the same but whose faces are different!”
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies... [Books] show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.”
Source: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
“The city is the cradle of culture, the birthplace of nearly all our most cherished ideas.”
Source: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
“Creating a breathing space- away from society's pressures and expectations- is not a sign of weakness or defeat but a recognition of the natural rhythms of life and our need for self-compassion. (“Finally unwind “)”
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.”
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The desire to become a member of society always overpowers the shame of being embraced by their system.”
Source: Walking Practice