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.
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.
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