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HUGHES AND BALANCE
Hughes was able to soar to great heights (literally and figuratively).
The physics that allow for flight are counterbalancing forces: thrust
and drag, lift and gravity. The Aviator
shows how counterbalancing forces were present in Hughes life (as
they are in all lives.) Scorsese chose to limit the film to the
time period when those forces were still somewhat in sync. Eventually
the forces that drug him down overwhelmed his life, but The
Aviator leaves us with the sense that the forces that
drive us on can overcome great forces against us.
In
our own lives we know that there are forces that are capable of
destroying us. It is through availing ourselves of the counter forces
which God provides, we too may be able to soar.
--Darrel Manson
ON
BALANCE
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge
the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live
that way, you are really a wise man.
--Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There
is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand
in the present moment, you are timeless.
--Rodney Yee
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering,
"I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance
here."
--Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
What I dream of is an art of balance.
--Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our
place and time, is in balance with everything else.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), O Magazine, April 2003
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain
one's balance and keep afloat.
--Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Fortunate
indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself,
and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he
can use.
--Peter Mere Latham |
