The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Interpretation
The essence of humanity lies in the individuality and resilience of each person.
This quote emphasizes the profound value of the individual human spirit, suggesting that the true worth of existence is found in the unique struggles, emotions, and dignities of each person. It acknowledges the complexity and nobility inherent in each individual, recognizing both their vulnerability and strength as key elements of the human experience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance and human strength.
At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
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