2c7265a
|
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
|
|
insane
nuts
sanity
tribe
|
Anne Lamott |
74efa88
|
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness
|
|
insanity
madness
nuts
sanity
tribe
|
Anne Lamott |
c5072a2
|
The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.
|
|
society
teamwork
tribe
|
Isaac Asimov |
93db366
|
Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.
|
|
god
grace
human
innocence
man
mars
martian
naked
nudity
personality
psychotic
shame
society
taboo-breaking
taboos
tribe
work-ethic
|
Robert A. Heinlein |
c6c245f
|
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.
|
|
holiness
laughter
life
secret
tribe
|
Anne Lamott |
f9bd70a
|
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
|
|
gifts
journey
shuar
tribe
|
Tahir Shah |
da44720
|
The only way to survive in a community where movement was the norm and material accumulation impractical was to maintain a strong sense on tribal solidarity by evenly sharing all available resources.
|
|
nomads
tribe
|
Reza Aslan |
652073d
|
We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality--a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend-- with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive-- that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us-- love muscular and resilient-- is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life.
|
|
belief
choice
community
diversity
energy
ethics
faith
god
human
life
life-force
love
moral-imagination
mystery
new-humanism
nonbelief
religion
reverence
ritual
spirituality
tribe
wisdom
|
Krista Tippett |
5e6f9d6
|
She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months.
|
|
history
méxico
native-american
santa-fe
southwest
tribe
true-stories
women
|
Noel Marie Fletcher |
71c426c
|
One time, a 16-year-old member of Vicente's group risked his safety trying to save a captive Texas girl, who had been seized by Comanches while taking clothes to wash at a stream near her house.
|
|
hispanic
history
new-mexico
southwest
tribe
true-stories
|
Noel Marie Fletcher |