"Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful?
But when has the world known any other time?
What madness there is. What blindness.
What unintelligent leadership.
A furiously racing mass of bewildered humanity, strengthening, not in wisdom, but in vulgar passions,
crashing headlong into each other, motivated by greed and propelled into brutality.
The time must come when evil will destroy itself.
I will not live to see that day. But you might, my son, and that is why you have been brought to Shangri-La.
For when the day comes that the world begins to look for a new life, it is our belief they will find their reservoir of hope here.
So here we shall stay, with our books and music and our meditation.
Here we shall be with our way of life based on one simple rule-
BE KIND.
And it is our hope that Shangri-La's brotherly love will then spread throughout the world.
And when the strong have devoured each other, then, at last,
the meek shall inherit the earth."
One never really knows who might happen to wander into
Shangri-La here in Ithaca, NY. In May of 2005 we were visited several times by the noted mathematician
Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman. His father, Christian Zeeman, from Aarhus in eastern Jutland, Denmark, had provided James Hilton with the conceptual source for the novel
Lost Horizon while on an ocean cruise. So it is only fitting that his son discovered our own
Shangri-La! Chris Zeeman, his wife Rosemary and daughter Mary Lou had fun as we designed fashions for them! As Chris Zeeman has been quoted, "Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity" - we strive for both here at
Shangri-La in Ithaca, NY.
Left to Right :
Sheldon Gosline,
Min You Gosline,
Rosemary Zeeman,
Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, and
Mary Lou Zeeman.
"When that
'little black
dress' is not
enough ...
SHANGRILA!"
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