'Life is only the perpetual surprise that I exist'
- Rabindranath Tagore
'Most people are other people'
- Oscar Wilde
'The mind is its own place and in itself
Can make a hell of heaven and a heaven of hell'
- John Milton
'You have many lovers, and yet I alone love you. Other men love themselves in your nearness. I love you in your self. Other men see a beauty in you that shall fade away sooner than their own years. But I see in you a beauty that shall not fade away.'
- Khalil Gibran
'I dreamt I was a butterfly. When I awoke, I was not sure whether I was a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly now dreaming I was a man.'
- Chuang Tsu
Posted by flowology on January 19, 2009
Being and not being all at once.
Discerning without judgement.
Relishing the luxury within simplicity.
Not needing another’s gaze to behold one’s Self.
Being at one with every other, but apart from everyone.
Dying in each moment before being reborn.
Being enriched by solitude, but finding solitude within company.
Observing the action, playing the part, but watching one’s self as you play.
Embracing afflictions as a test of endurance.
Being compassionately detached.
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Posted by flowology on January 6, 2009
Why is it that some people are great at giving advice but hopeless at following their own advice? Why is it that Wayne Rooney knows how to play football, but probably wouldn’t be able to teach someone else his techniques? Why are there so few people who can practise knowledge and preach that knowledge simultaneously?
It’s because of the difference between knowing and being.
Theoretically, you can know what you have to do but some weakness in you prevents you from acting. Some people act effortlessly but unconsciously. Others are very aware and conscious but some weakness in themselves prevents them from acting.
The secret to success is in striking a balance between knowing and being. Know what you are, what you have, what you aim for – then have the will power to be exactly that…
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