Bruce Laingen quotes

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.
-- Bruce Laingen

#Water #Tea #Experience

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.