T Quotes
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“The Birnam Oak by Stewart Stafford
Medieval guardian, limpet oak,
Reinforced branches, sunlit soak,
Gnarled limbs in supplicant pose,
A statuesque deity in thorny repose.
Set up tent 'neath a canopy deep,
Where my pilgrim forbears sleep,
Midges swarming campfire's glow,
And drowsy me, to slumber go.
May roots prosper far from sight,
Defying storm, flame, chainsaw's bite,
Give verdant breath to creation's plan.
Until Earth falls from human hand.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.”
“The birth and growth of modern antisemitism has been accompanied by and interconnected with Jewish assimilation, the secularization and withering away of the old religious and spiritual values of Judaism. What actually happened was that great parts of the Jewish people were at the same time threatened by physical extinction from without and dissolution from within. In this situation, Jews concerned with the survival of their people would, in a curious and desperate misinterpretation, hit on the consoling idea that antisemitism, after all, might be an excellent means for keeping the people together so that the assumption of external antisemitism would even imply an external guarantee of Jewish existence. This superstition, a secularized travesty of the idea of eternity inherent in a faith in chosenness and a Messianic hope, has been strengthened through the fact that for many centuries the Jews experienced the Christian brand of hostility which was indeed a powerful agent of preservation, spiritually as well as politically. The Jews mistook modern anti-Christian antisemitism for the old religious Jew-hatred—and this all the more innocently because their assimilation had by-passed Christianity in its religious and cultural aspect. Confronted with an obvious symptom of the decline of Christianity, they could therefore imagine in all ignorance that this was some revival of the so-called "Dark Ages." Ignorance or misunderstanding of their own past were partly responsible for their fatal underestimation of the actual and unprecedented dangers which lay ahead. But one should also bear in mind that lack of political ability and judgment have been caused by the very nature of Jewish history, the history of a people without a government, without a country, and without a language. Jewish history offers the extraordinary spectacle of a people, unique in this respect, which began its history with a well-defined concept of history and an almost conscious resolution to achieve a well-circumscribed plan on earth and then, without giving up this concept, avoided all political action for two thousand years. The result was that the political history of the Jewish people became even more dependent upon unforeseen, accidental factors than the history of other nations, so that the Jews stumbled from one role to the other and accepted responsibility for none.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.”
Source: Witchcraft for Tomorrow
“The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'”
“The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.”
“The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.”
“The birth of a baby is the beginning of a journey of discovery of who this new being is, what they will embody, and how they shall live in relationship with their family, peers, communities, and the environment.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The birth of a baby was proof enough. Every baby, she believed, was a miracle of God.”
Source: The Last Midwife
“The birth of a child is a beauty to behold.”
“The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.”
“The birth of a child is a sacred covenant between the Divine, the child, their parent(s), and humanity. This child does not belong to any one or two people.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The birth of a child is a sacred phenomenon.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The birth of a child is divine miracle.”
“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”
Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
“The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The birth of a child is the bliss of joyous celebration of new human being.”
“The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.”
“The birth of a great idea comes through you, not from you.”
“The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!”
Source: Red Russia
“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.”
“The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.”
“The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“The birth of any show is always a rough one.”
“The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.”
“The birth of crisis is a birth of opportunity to change yourself, to rise on the top,to become more powerful and more knowledgeable.”
“The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.”
“The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“The birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
“The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.”
“The birth of our human body is due to the output process of the divine force in the universal consciousness, which we falsely portray as a human being on Earth due to the mind of mankind gifted by the Cosmic Consciousness.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The birth of quantum physics brought science and spirituality into alignment. It was the realization by physicists that photons have consciousness, and not just limited consciousness, but awareness of the entire cosmos.”
Source: Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
“The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.”
“The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.”
Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
“The birth of science was the death of superstition.”
“The birth of the 20th century was like a flaming sunrise. More was expected of the century than any other. So much had been achieved in the previous one that it seemed sensible to expect that henceforth the world's triumphs would far outweigh the disasters.”
Source: A Short History of the Twentieth Century
“The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.”
“The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.”
“The birth of the Ego, and of the world-anxiety with which it is identical, is one of the final secrets of humanity and of mobile life generally. In front of the Microcosm there stands up a Macrocosm wide and overpowering, an abyss of alien, dazzling existence and activity that frightens the small lonely ego back into itself...Over the dawn of the new Culture likewise lay this deathly anxiety.”
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”
“The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.”
“The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.”
“The birthday of a new world is at hand.”
Source: Common Sense ... A new edition ... To which is added, an Appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers, etc. [With a portrait.]