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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Thoreau
"The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world."
-Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau is one of my top ten favorite writers. This guy was all about living simple and being with nature. He was a philosopher that also wrote on every topic from politics to understanding and co-existing with nature. I recommend Walden. It is a great read.
....a gentle breeze blew my way....
Today I watched the wind blow it's gentle breeze over a beautiful flower. It sent some of its pedals in motion. And as I watched, I thought about how God uses that gentle breeze to scatter the beauty all over. It is so cool when you think about it. Its like the whole world is his canvas. Wow.....
My friend.......Albert
Albert Einstein is one of my favorite teachers. He had so much understanding of the world and its ways. It is almost as if he was so brilliant, that his mind could only function on the level of sheer simplicity. In a world of such complexity....he made so much sense. He put much faith in the creative process, and knew it's importance in our personal development. One of my favorite quotes of his......
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education"
-Albert Einstein
Moving Mind
Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind.
"It's the wind that is really moving," stated the first one.
"No, it is the flag that is moving," contended the second.
A Zen master, who happened to be walking by, overheard the debate and interrupted them.
"Neither the flag nor the wind is moving," he said, "It is MIND that moves."
The ostrich who kept his head down.......
There was an Ostrich who was the most nervous creature of its kind. At the least provocation, the merest hint of alarm and the flimsiest cause for concern, he would thrust his head into the sand and stay there until he was sure, beyond any doubt, that the coast was clear and the danger past.
He could often be seen - his neck, body and legs very much in evidence, but his head well and truly out of sight - long after the wildebeest stampede had galloped away in a cloud of dust or the big game hunters’ jeep had rattled off into the distance.
“Why do you wait so long before showing your face?” asked one of the other ostriches.
“Well,” said the Ostrich who kept his head down, “one really cannot be too careful…”
“But---” began the other ostrich and then stopped short on hearing a low snarly-roar that suggested that a large predator was lurking nearby.
Instantly, the other ostrich made a dash for safety, knowing that, with a head start, he could out-run anything on four paws.
The Ostrich who kept his head down, on the other hand, poked his head in the sand and pretended that, since he could see nothing, he could not be seen.
The Jaguar, for that is who was doing the stalking, sat for some time washing his paws and looking at the exposed haunches of the Ostrich. Eventually, however, he decided that without the chase the kill would be boring, so he wandered off to look for an antelope or two.
The Ostrich who kept his head down, kept his head down for several hours, congratulating himself on having eluded certain death.
As a result, he failed to notice great banks of black storm clouds rolling in across the veldt or hear the rumble of approaching thunder. In fact, he knew nothing about anything until - with a single, dazzlingly searing flash - he was struck by lightning and fried to a crisp.
.......this is why awareness is so important.
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