30 September, 2017

Learn to...


"Let us then be up and doing 
With a heart for any fate; 
Still achieving still pursuing 
Learn to labor and to wait."

G. Longfellow

29 September, 2017

A Psalm of Life


"TELL me not in mournful numbers 
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers 
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal; 
Dust thou art to dust returnest 
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow 
Is our destined end or way; 
But to act that each to-morrow 
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long and Time is fleeting 
And our hearts though stout and brave 
Still like muffled drums are beating 
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle 
In the bivouac of Life 
Be not like dumb driven cattle! 
Be a hero in the strife! 
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! 
Let the dead Past bury its dead! 
Act act in the living Present! 
 Heart within and God o'erhead! 
Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime 
And departing leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time; 
Footprints that perhaps another 
Sailing o'er life's solemn main 
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother 
Seeing shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing 
With a heart for any fate; 
Still achieving still pursuing 
Learn to labor and to wait."

G. Longfellow

28 September, 2017

Secret of life...


“The secret of life, though, is to fall 
seven times and to get up eight times.” 

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

26 September, 2017

Idea owners?


"The good old days, when each idea 
had an owner, are gone forever." 

Paulo Coelho

23 September, 2017

Honesty


"Honesty is the first chapter 
in the book of wisdom." 

Thomas Jefferson

21 September, 2017

Wisdom...


"A fool thinks himself to be wise
but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." 

William Shakespeare

20 September, 2017

One day...


"One day, the earth will consume you. What you 
consume decides when you will be consumed."

Sadhguru

19 September, 2017

Light and dark...


"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

CG Jung
“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). 
In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335

18 September, 2017

Lives of great men...


"Lives of great men all remind us, 
we can make our lives sublime, 
and, departing, leave behind us, 
footprints on the sands of time." 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

17 September, 2017

On death....


"He who is silent and bows his head 
dies every time he does so. 
He who speaks aloud and walks 
with his head held high dies only once."

Giovanni Falcone

Giovanni Falcone; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992 - was an Italian judge who spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia that had become a state unto itself. He was killed by the mafia in Sicily in May 1992 with the implicit contribution and betrayal by members of the Italian government state apparatus.

Italy (like Colombia, Mexico, Russia etc etc etc) has seen many martyrs in the course of attempting justice that have included honorable men and women from all professions that were abandoned by a weak cowardly corrupt and complicit state. Their only fault: a scrupulous integrity and commitment to law.

Those killed by just one of the many various mafias of Italy are listed below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_victims_of_the_Sicilian_Mafia



16 September, 2017

Merging....


“We sit together, the mountain and me, 
until only the mountain remains.” 

Li Bai

15 September, 2017

Music...


"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, 
wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and 
charm and gaiety to life and to everything." 

Plato

14 September, 2017

Depth of experience...


"Your life becomes spectacular not by what you 
gather and possess but by the profoundness of 
experience."

Sadhguru

13 September, 2017

Energy...


"When you are enthusiastic about what you 
do you feel this positive energy. It's very simple".

Paulo Coehlo

12 September, 2017

Music


11 September, 2017

Light of consciousness


09 September, 2017

Advice

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"To advise is not to compel."

Anton Chekhov

07 September, 2017

Life not accidental...


"Life is not accidental – everything happens 
between cause and effect." 

Sadhguru

04 September, 2017

Love...


"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

 Nelson Mandela

02 September, 2017

I dwell...


“You ask me why I dwell 
amidst these jade-green hills? 
I smile. No words can tell 
the stillness in my heart. 
Peach blossoms drift streamwater 
away deep in mystery. 
I live in the other world 
one that lies beyond the human. ” 

Li Bai