..from Hasidic texts
In the service of God, one can learn three things from a child and seven from a thief
From a child you can learn (1) always to be happy (2) never to sit idle; and (3) to cry for anything one wants.
From a thief you should learn (1) work at night (2) if one cannot gain what one wants in one night to try again the next night; (3) to love one's coworkers just as thieves love each other; (4) to be willing to risk one's life even for a little thing (5) not to attach too much value to things even though one has risked one's life for them - just as a thief will resell a stolen article for a fraction of its real value; (6) to withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are; and (7) to believe that your work is worthwhile and nothing will change it.
another:
You can learn something from everything. Even from a train, a telephone and a telegram.
From a train, you can learn that in one second one can miss everything. From a telephone you can learn that what you say over here can be heard over there. And from a telegram that all words are counted and charged.
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Interviewer - In "Wedding Song" you sing: "I love you more than ever/Now that the past is gone. " But in Tangled up in Blue" you sing: "But all the while I was alone/The past was close behind." Between these two couplets lies an important boundary
Bob Dylan - We allow our past to exist. Our credibility is based on our past. But deep in our soul we have no past. I don't think we have a past, any more than we have a name. You can say we have a past if we have a future. Do we have a future? No. So how can our past exist if the future doesn't exist?
Interviewer - So what are the songs on 'Blood on the Tracks' about?
Bob Dylan - The Present.
Interviewer - Why did you say "I love you more than ever/Now the past is gone"?
Bob Dylan - That's delusion. That's gone.
Interviewer - And what about "And all the while I was alone/The past was close behind"?
Bob Dylan - That's more delusion. Delusion is close behind.
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Interviewer - The Buddhist tradition talks about illusion, the Jewish tradition about allusion, which do you feel closer to?
Bob Dylan - I believe in both, but I probably lean to allusion. I'm not a Buddhist. I believe in life, but not this life.
Interviewer - What life do you belive in?
Bob Dylan - Real life.
Interviewer - Do you ever experience real life?
Bob Dylan - I experience it all the time. It's beyond this life.
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Discussion groups, chat lines, support networks - the new millenium. The age of the all vocalising all important fuck up. Normal men and women spilling the contents of their troubled souls in to the ears of the uninterested.
Excreting the sorry waste of their emotional innards in all manner of public places; pubs, telly, newspapers. If only they'd zip it and heed their inner voice, the one that never lies, the one that screams at ya in the dead of night. Oh I, it is better to remain silent, than be thought a repressed old fart and opens one mouth and be discovered a babbling self-obsessed fool. Shameless
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she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.
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Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people
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You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough
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When the scorer comes to write against your name,
it matters not who won or lost,
but how you played the game.
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Life is what happens whilst you're busy making other plans
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