Fulfilling Followership
Philosophical Musings from the Ancient to the Modern
“There is nothing softer or more yielding than water but
none is superior to it in overcoming the hard; it has no equal. Weakness
overcomes strength and gentleness overcomes rigidity. Everyone knows this, yet
no one puts it into practice”
Thus Spake Zarathustra
“There are some who
threw away their last value when they threw away their servitude”
1 Peter 3:
3-4
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewellery and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight”
Kahil Gibran,
The Prophet
“You give little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly
give”
George Gordon,
Lord Byron
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual”
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first
time”
C. G. Jung
"We cannot change anything until we
accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
John Phillips
"In
abolishing the Ego, in privileging Other over Self, O mirrors the point of infinity
which the perfect circle of her name symbolically represents, signifier of a
lack that accepts itself, and in so doing, becomes eternal"
Anonymous
“There are two
ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
Bruce Lee
"Notice that the stiffest tree is
most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the
wind"
Yodah Toveh, “The Healthy Female
Submissive”
“There are two kinds of strengths: the
strength to lead and the strength to follow; the strength to control and the
strength to yield. There are two kinds of power: the power to strip another’s
soul bare, and the power to stand naked”
Madeleine L'Engle
"When we were children, we used to think that when we
were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept
vulnerability ... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
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