Tao Te Ching – Chapter 11
Mold clay into a vessel;
It is the emptiness within that creates the usefulness of the vessel.
Cut out doors and windows in a house;
It is the empty space inside that creates the usefulness of the house.
Thus, what we have may be something substantial,
But its usefulness lies in the unoccupied, empty space.
The substance of your body is enlivened
By maintaining the part of you that is unoccupied.
Lao Tzu
read moreOde By Arthur O’Shaughnessy
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Worlds inside
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. —- Anais Nin
read more…there is a field. I will meet you there…
People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of Love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening, and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.
That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we’ll always have because we cannot possess them.
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
“Be water, my friend”
read moreThis is what it is, ok? I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. – Bruce Lee
Human Puzzles
read moreHuman beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. – Sigmund Freud
A Lesson from a Dropout on Curiosity & Writing the Practical Apps of Life
“The future Apple co-founder enrolled in Reed College that year, but dropped out after a single semester. He remained on campus, however, to attend classes that interested him, as he explained in that 2005 commencement address at Stanford.”
read moreThe Cranky Old Man
It is said “When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.” He wrote:
Phantom pain.
Rosalind: Does it hurt?
Phil: Everyday.
Rosalind: Phantom pain. The thing that’s missing is the thing that hurts the most.
Phil: Makes it hard to forget.
Rosalind: So maybe you don’t. But it’s also important to look ahead. See what’s in front of you.
– Coulson and Price, Season 3, Ep 7 ~ Chaos Theory
Where roads are made I lose my way…
Where roads are made I lose my way.
In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.
The pathway is hidden by the birds’ wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.
And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.
Rabindranath Tagore
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