Helgeson Obituary Quotes & Sayings

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind. — Anthony D. Williams

We're told to plug our noses
to escape the smells.
Manure.
Rot.
Poverty?
Reality. — Holly Bodger

You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude. — Courtney Barnett

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand. — Zhuangzi

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death. — Tom Stoppard

You can experiment with directing metta toward a difficult aspect of yourself. There may be physical or emotional aspects of yourself you have struggled with, denied, avoided, been at war with. Sit quietly, sending yourself metta. After some time, turn your attention to the loneliness, anger, disability, addiction, or whatever aspect of your mind or body you feel most estranged from. Healing begins with the open, compassionate acknowledgment of these unpleasant aspects of our lives. Surround the painful element of your experience with the warmth and acceptance of metta. You can use phrases such as, ' May I accept this,' 'May I be filled with loving kindness toward this,' 'May I use the pain of this experience for the welfare of all. — Sharon Salzberg

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A — Rita Mae Brown

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in ... it didn't used to be that way. — Jason Patric

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow. — A.R. Rahman

Haven't you felt it? The loss of autonomy. The sense of being virtualized. The devices you use, the ones you carry everywhere, room to room, minute to minute, inescapably. Do you ever feel unfleshed?
All the coded impulses you depend on to guide you. All the sensors in the room are watching you, listening to you, tracking your habits, measuring your capabilities. All the linked data designed to incorporate you into the megadata. Is there something that makes you uneasy? Do you think about the technovirus, all systems down, global implosion? Or is it more personal? Do you feel steeped in some horrific digital panic that's everywhere and nowhere? — Don DeLillo