A Quote by Harvey Cox

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. — © Harvey Cox
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.
I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?
Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.
I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.
Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.
Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.
I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.
You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.
I love working out. I also go horse-riding and golfing.
I've been riding since I was seven. If I were a horse, I would want an Hermes halter.
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
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