Fear, anger and hatred...

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"Fear, anger, and hatred essentially come from

a lack of perspective as to what life is all about."

Sadhguru

Cranes...

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"Sometimes I feel that all those fallen soldiers,

Who never left the bloody battle zones,

Have not been buried to decay and molder,

But turned into white cranes that softly groan.

And thus, until these days since those bygone times,

They still fly in the skies and gently cry.

Isn’t it why we often hear those bell chimes

And calmly freeze while looking in the sky?

A tired flock of cranes still flies – their wings flap.

Birds glide into the twilight, roaming free.

In their formation I can see a small gap –

It might be so, that space is meant for me.

The day shall come, when in a mist of ashen

I’ll soar with cranes, and final rest I’ll find,

From the skies calling – in a bird-like fashion

All those of you who I’ll have left behind.

Sometimes I feel that all those fallen soldiers,

Who never left the bloody battle zones,

Have not been buried to decay and molder

But turned into white cranes that softly groan…"

Rasul Gamzatov

Translation by the poet Leo Schwartzenberg

Click to listen: White cranes...song in English

The Sail...

"Amid the blue haze of the ocean

A sail is passing, white and frail.

What do you seek in a far country?

What have you left at home, lone sail?

The billows play, the breezes whistle,

And rhythmically creaks the mast.

Alas, you seek no happy future,

Nor do you flee a happy past.

Below the mirrored azure brightens,

Above the golden rays increase —

But you, wild rover, pray for tempests

As if in tempests there was peace!"

Mikhail Lermonov

Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

How come ?

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“How come we can invent better ways to kill

each other, but not one to preserve peace!”

Abhijit Naskar

Man...

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“All war is a symptom of man's

failure as a thinking animal.”

John Steinbeck

Education today

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Nothing more to be said.

First flight...

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"With all the knowledge and skill acquired

in thousands of flights in the last ten years,

I would hardly think today of making my

first flight on a strange machine in a twenty

seven mile wind, even if I knew that the

machine had already been flown and was

safe."

Orville Wright

I love those

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can

gather strength from distress, and grow brave

by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds

to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and

whose conscience approves their conduct,

will pursue their principles unto death."

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest rewards...

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“The greatest rewards come from within…

through imagination, courage, faith and

action.”

Michael ONeill