<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"Memory is a passion no less powerful or pervasive
than love. What does it mean to remember? It is to
live more than one world, to prevent the past from
fading and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
It is to revive fragments of existence, to rescue lost
beings, to cast harsh light on faces and events, to
drive back the sands that cover the surface of
things."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
As our world is changing, always remember.
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Van Canna
Memories
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Where is this quote from, Van Canna-Shihan?
It is beautiful.
Respectfully,
Lee Darrow, C.Ht.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Van Canna:
As our world is changing, always remember.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
It is beautiful.
Respectfully,
Lee Darrow, C.Ht.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Van Canna:
As our world is changing, always remember.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Memories
The above is a passage from <u>All Rivers Run to the Sea</u> the memoirs of Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, teacher and author.
More on Elie Wiesel: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm
The speech on that page contains thoughtful words for changing times - and as we move forward in time from the events we say changed the world - and if our patriotism starts to wane somewhat - remembering perhaps but becoming more of an indifference instead of a passionate memory as the survival mechanism of numbness settles in to dull the pain - we would do well to remind ourselves of these words from Wiesel as well:
<blockquote>In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference,
after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a
great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is
angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times
may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response.
Indifference is not a response.
Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the
enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels
forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to
respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them
from human memory. And in denying their humanity we betray our own.
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. And this is one of the most important lessons
of this outgoing century's wide-ranging experiments in good and evil.</blockquote>
Be passionate in your memories.
More on Elie Wiesel: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm
The speech on that page contains thoughtful words for changing times - and as we move forward in time from the events we say changed the world - and if our patriotism starts to wane somewhat - remembering perhaps but becoming more of an indifference instead of a passionate memory as the survival mechanism of numbness settles in to dull the pain - we would do well to remind ourselves of these words from Wiesel as well:
<blockquote>In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference,
after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a
great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is
angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times
may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response.
Indifference is not a response.
Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the
enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels
forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to
respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them
from human memory. And in denying their humanity we betray our own.
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. And this is one of the most important lessons
of this outgoing century's wide-ranging experiments in good and evil.</blockquote>
Be passionate in your memories.
