Majicman Notes

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.  Saint Augustine Read more

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Read more

There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable. New ideas germinate everywhere, seeking to force their way into the light, to find… Read more

The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But … the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful… Read more

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping  Thich Nhat Hanh https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/thich-nhat-hanh-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Read more

A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it,  A song’s not a song ’til you sing it,  Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay,  Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!… Read more

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Read more

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail 16 April, 1963 https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Read more

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.  Elie Wiesel Night Read more

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can… Read more