quotes

"Most people would rather be certain that they're miserable, than risk being happy"
--Robert Anthony
"We can avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
--Gray Collins
"We must accept finite disappointment but never loose infinite hope."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

quote

Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Lao Tzu

was browsing through lao tzu teachings.
one of his teachings...
"stop thinking and end your problems"
at first thought it sounds funny though i have to figure out what he means by it.

a formless, unfantomable source of things -- Taoism

Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.
These three are indefinable, they are one.

From above it is not bright;
From below it is not dark:
Unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.
Form of the formless,
Image of the imageless,
It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.

Stand before it - there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the Tao, Move with the present.

initially tao's teachings seems absurd. but after going through few of them they starts to make "sense". i haven't read his teaching in a long time so forgot the essence of it. however he drives us to be in sink with nature, spontaneous action... he says to go with the flow(flow of nature) though most of them have tremendous paradox in them and go round in circles. but it is very interesting school of thoughts.

i wonder if we have come to far from nature to get back in sink with it?

thought

the easiest way to wait for something is to occupy your mind with other things...

No Way!!!!

this is unbelievable... read on news.com microsoft wants to buy Red Hat :((...
wonder what bought that along. but i hope it is not true!

thought

lets see where life leads us... but we are not following the path life gives, we make our own.

food for thought

was randomly reading swami vivekanand's work...
today i came across one of his speeches where he talks abt means to reach a goal. Attachment to the goals that we set, detachment from it. He says we should attach ourselves to the goal with the same strength with which can detach ourselves from it. also "give and there it ends" one should not worry abt what we get in return.
title -- "work and its secret"
it was really an intresting read abt somethings that we forget along the way and we need reminders for it.