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Interesting Quote - Who Really Said It?…
By DanB | June 8, 2006
I ran across this quote on the Internet. Made a note of the quote but forgot to put where I saw it. I don’t think it was original with the person who used in the signature of their email. Here is the quote:
“If you move one grain of sand the world will never be the same.”
I like the thought. It reminds me of a condensed version of the starfish story:
Once there was a man walking down the beach, and he noticed the beach was covered with thousands of starfish that were washed up with the tide. They were everywhere. As he walked along the beach he noticed a young boy up ahead throwing rocks into the ocean. As he got closer to the boy he noticed he was not throwing rocks at all but he was actually throwing the starfish back into the ocean.
He thought. “What a crazy kid. He really thinks he can save all of these starfish? There are thousands of them!”
As he got next to the boy he said, “Hey kid, what are you doing? You really think you make a difference?” The boy picked up another starfish, threw it back to the ocean and replied, “I made a difference to that one!”
I don’t know who to attribute that story to either. I have heard several speakers use the story and most recently ran across it while studying the Banabu 11 Principles course.
If you know the origin of either of these please leave a comment and let me know.
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June 8th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
The origin of the phrase is ancient, it has been used many times, as below:
William Blake wrote in the Augaries of Innocence:
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower;
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
and Eternity in an hour.”
Eddie Arnold sang the song:
One Grain Of Sand
——Eddy Arnold
One one one grain of sand one one one grain of sand
Just one little grain of sand can change your life and ruin your plans
Undermine your house of love bring it tumbling down
One one one grain of sand
Once upon a mountain top a castle stood
Carved out of rock and stone iron and wood
Then one day a grain of sand grew into an iron latch
Undermined the mountain side and the castle tumbled down
One one one grain of sand
A lover spoke an angry word that led to tears
The tears led to a quarrel love disappeared
That word was like a grain of sand
That undermined the things they’ve planned
It shook up the house of love and brought it tumbling down
One one one grain of sand
Just one little grain of sand can change your life and ruin your plans
Undermine your house of love bring it tumbling down
One one one grain of sand
One one one grain of sand
June 8th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Thank you very much. that is very helpful.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Dan:
I hate to tell you this.
“If everyone did nothing,
the world would never be the same.”
By Tom Mousseau and probably others.
Sameness is only a concept devised by humans for cenvenience. Something to do with the inherent construct of time, and our need to understand.
I do understand the sentiment.
If I recall an attributed source I will let you know. Keep off the beach.
Tom Mousseau
in the Great Grey North.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Tom ~
Thank you. I like your phrase.
Someone privately pointed me to Buddha. There were some similar phrases by Buddha but I felt they had a different sentiment.
I am not convinced that sameness is an illussion as much as I am that time is. Time is certainly a useful hallucination to impose on our world.
~ Dan
August 29th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
From my understanding of such subtle meaning is simply this: Right Action, or lackthereof.
Sadly, planet Earth (so we call it) now has over six billion human inhabitants, all of which think they are right and yet this so called “right” appears to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
So, we are all moving our own individual “grain of sand” thinking we are right in doing so but how is that so many moving in different directions ever resolve anything?
We move the grain of sand because it is there. Few can sit in peace or have the consciousness to stop BEFORE acting upon the impulse.
The more intelligent we become, the more greedy we are!
Mostly, we are cursed withing a pardox of doing and/or not doing. It appears to me that the human race has already done enough in most cases and definately not enough in other cases.
Ah yes…….and the Wheel of Life continues on and on and on and on until we finally destroy ourselves.
Where is that snooze button any way ?
July 4th, 2008 at 8:13 am
“…these are the days of our lives.”