In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
We can't just assume that because something is old it is right. Somerset Maugham. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
Eliot, The Sacred Wood. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. The choice is yours.
If they succeed at at becoming reintegrated, they will be an important instrument in transforming and renewing their tradition. When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again.
Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right.
Sometimes Everyone is wrong. Sometimes we require them. That was a word I hated as much as tradition. Uninformed people can be easily manipulated. It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Traditions help create memories. Traditions help impart our life values to our children. Upholding my family tradition is extremely important not just for me, but everyone in my family. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of you life.
Importance quotes I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Tradition 13 quotes Tradition ist das Ruhekissen der Urteilskraft.
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What we need is search for fundamentals, not reiteration of traditions born in days when men knew even less than we do now. Tags: Thomas Edison. Tradition: one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking. When traditions become so hard and fast that their adherence actually frustrates the original point of their adoption, then it's time to rethink their utility.
GARY J. Tags: Jonah Goldberg. Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
Tags: Jiddu Krishnamurti. I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. Every tradition grows ever more venerable -- the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is.
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