Preachers love only their own voices.
John Berger, Confabulations.
“The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.”
“A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.”
“We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and...”
“Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it wa...”
“I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We ...”
“Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.”
“People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.”
“Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!”
“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
“I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is v...”
“There is no such thing as a non-subjective world to a subjective mind.”