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k.cherry

USA
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Posted - Dec 06 2021 :  11:13:32 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Message
From The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell. Here he is talking about the quality of chutzpah...

"It's effrontery with a feather in its cap, it's the sound of three hands clapping, it's a garlic bagel crashing a party of champagne flutes. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, but we tend to smile or gasp when we encounter it."

Ah, the wisdom that can be gleaned from a garlic bagel!

maheswari

Lebanon
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Posted - Dec 07 2021 :  09:26:36 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
I like that , it definitely resonates
It is hubris but not hubris...it surprises... ...it is intense, sharp and assertive with a feather
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Dogboy

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Posted - Dec 07 2021 :  1:04:59 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
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