The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
Interpretation
People seek places and practices that evoke feelings of purity and connection to something greater than themselves.
In this quote, Michael J. Fox highlights the universal human yearning for purity and spiritual connection, suggesting that rituals and places of worship serve as conduits for individuals to experience profound emotional and spiritual fulfillment. Whether itβs wailing at a wall, praying towards Mecca, or gathering in a church, these actions are driven by a deep-seated desire to reach a state of purity and enlightenment, reflecting our intrinsic search for meaning in life.
In practice
During a speech on seeking inner peace.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.
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