Seeing
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
A collection of valuable quotes on humor, medicine and spirituality
Author archive for: ProfJameson
Incurable
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.
Kiss Good-bye
I saw a commercial the other day for Preparation H that said “kiss your hemorrhoids good bye”.Not even if I could.
Everything for Money
It is said for money you can have everything, but you cannot.You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge, but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace;you can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernal.
Building a Ship
The way to get people to build a ship is not to teach them carpentry, assign them tasks and give them schedules to meet, but to inspire them to long for the infinite immensity of the sea.
Science Gone Bad
As soon as anybody belongs to a certain narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
– Goethe
Experiencing God
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.