Passing Through

Do not adjust your

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree. Ernest Bramah

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through … if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of … Read more

Lecture is the transfer

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. Eric Mazur

When times are difficult,

When times are difficult, I tell myself, ‘I’m just passing through.’ Eric Cantona

When you really think

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same. Emily Carr

The voices in my

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence. Elizabeth Wurtzel

I sense a scream

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted … the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. Edvard Munch

I was walking along

I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there … Read more

Death is only passing

Death is only passing through God’s other door. Edgar Cayce

Imagine wave after wave

Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away. Frederick Lenz