Brooklynlamb

“In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

“I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.”
― Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
― Roger Ebert, Life Itself

“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”
― Alan Watts