Doshin wrote:I would claim, that you delude yourself by just looking at the messenger, and forget to look at the message; actually the essence of the message.
John Lennon is who is often credited for that insightful quote, its from one of his songs released in 1980. However the quote can be found in 1957 in Reader’s Digest magazine, in March 1958 the popular syndicated columnist Earl Wilson published a version of the saying in a subsection titled “Earl’s Pearls”. (dates found on quoteinvestigator.com ).
Does that make the insight, in the quote, more or less true ?
What I do, is to take the quote (and just the quote) into my mind, and leave it there to simmer, and wait for insights to arise.
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Well..chownah wrote:Are you familiar with "ad hominum" argument? It means discounting something because of who said it. It is a mistake to do this. If the devil says words of wisdom then the words are still wisdom. Judge words by what they mean and not by who says them. I am neither promoting nor denigrating the quote above....my comment here is not about the quote, it is about the mistaken sort of logic that you are using to respond to it.
chownah
Edit.......I guess I'm guilty of piling on.....I didn't see the previous post.......oh we'll, it can't hurt to emphasize this point.
chownah
There are about lots of "wise quotes" you can find in the internet, here you can find 10000+ of them
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/life
Is there any particular reason I should consider that John Lennon quote more important than others?