“Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.” StillsKnownFourLandFindingsTraditionHillsDictatorshipMessengersMeadowsPloughing Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.” PeopleWantWritingKindDifferentUseRunningFindingsTraditionWoodsDifferent KindsBuilder Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.” IfsWayNeedsRealCan DoReligiousViewsCommonCompassionCenturyFindingsApproachEthicsTraditionBelieverCommon SenseErasIndianRootedSecular21st CenturyRespecting OthersEducation SystemCultural DiversityInspirational EducationReligious TraditionsNon BelieverUnbiasedCommon ExperienceSecular Humanism Author:Dalai Lama
“Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.” PeopleMeanParticularFindingsTraditionInsight Author:Thomas Keating
“There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.” WholeChristianCultureHoursChurchFindingsEternalTraditionSurfaceMilesEnterpriseRootedTimelessDivingBeneath The SurfaceDiving Deep Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].” LittlesMotherGrowing UpTakenGrowingBrotherDadFindingsTraditionCatholicMy DadPriestsStrictDualityFinding God Author:David LaChapelle
“Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.” SometimesPastNextTermLike YouFindingsSittingTraditionBasesReassuring Author:Mohsin Hamid