Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself.
Thoreau said: “It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?
Kaizen” is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements. It was considered to be one of the main reasons for the dramatic gains in productivity and quality in Japanese manufacturing and was widely copied throughout the world. Kaizen applies to individuals, too. Every day, work to refine the skills you have and to add new tools to your repertoire.
Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist “sage,” his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and degraded, in most popular versions. I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul.
If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin.
Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds – and so will expend the correctional.
Los chicos buenos son lindos.
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings through many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
You don’t need to touch me in order to hurt me. You break my heart without lifting a finger, and that’s why tonight happened.
The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, “Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this.
She smiles at me. It’s a crumpled thing, too small for her face. I remember when it used to shine like a star, fueled by her endless joy, but now it’s running on fumes. She can’t even muster enough power to bring her eyes along for the ride.
The days are long but the decades are short.
It’s hard to answer the question “what’s wrong?” when nothing is right.
Some persons can’t accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions.
In Sanskrit this ardent, one-pointed, self-transcending passion is called tapas, and the Vedas revere it as an unsurpassable creative force. From the tapas of God, the Rig Veda says, the cosmos itself was born.
Scala is also a functional language in the sense that every function is a value and because every value is an object so ultimately every function is an object.
We do not do well when we are alone for a long period of time, and having friends and family alongside us through life’s journey makes the trip more enjoyable and successful. This is a fundamental truth of the world around.
How does it feel to know where you are going?
And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: “Obviously, Doctor,” she said, “you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.
The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind.