The Magnified Muse: #19 - The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

Monday, June 21, 2010

#19 - The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

SOLUTIONS

We are impotent to nature’s fury
and prisoners of disasters created by man.
But we are a greater people
when we strive for solutions
without arrogance getting in the way.

1 comment:

Susan Schoeffield said...: TRUE AND FALSE

I am old enough
to know true wisdom counts more
than false arrogance.; June 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM

NEXT PROMPT: 6/23/11

About the originator of this week's quote:

Mary Garden, born in Whakatane, New Zealand in 1950, went to Waikato University & Hamilton Teachers College in 1966 from where she graduated with a B.Ed and a Teachers College Diploma. After a year’s teaching, she spent a year doing post-graduate studies at the University of Auckland. She abandoned her studies in 1973 to go to India where she spent seven years exploring Eastern mysticism and becoming entangled with various gurus. In 1980 she settled in Queensland, Australia, married, had two children and became an Australian citizen. For four years she held a major role in Maleny’s Black Possum Publishing Co-operative. Her book “The Serpent Rising: a journey of spiritual seduction” is based on her alleged experiences in India in the 1970’s with various gurus including Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba and Balyogi Premvarni. She is particularly interested in exploring and investigating alternative lifestyles and eco-villages as well as the ever-persistent need for gurus and New Age ‘fixes’ and writing about these things.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

#19 - The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

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