This is why ‘practiced balance’ is learned balance. It becomes second nature to us.
[size=150]"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.”[/size]
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“[size=150]What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” [/size]— Richard Bach (Illusions)
Ah
[size=150]Be patient with all that is resolved in your heart; try to love the questions themselves; do not Now seek the answers; which cannot be given, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything Now. Perhaps you will then gradually without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke[/size]
[size=150]A tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others a green thing which stands in the way. As a man IS, so he SEES.[/size]
William Blake
[size=150]May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been
the foresight to know where you’re going
and the insight to know when you’re going too far.[/size]
[size=150]May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door.[/size]
We are not only surrounded by, but exist in, something author Dan Simmons calls “the Void which Binds.”
It has loosely been called “Spirit” and Universal Intelligence or Mind.
We are individuals connected to everything else, not only by awareness or DNA, but by compassion… or lack thereof.
We find ourselves constantly at a crossroads of terrible choice: to promote, enhance, build, honor, bless – or to destroy.
No place was ever made to house the ones who would remain indecisive in this matter.
Mind evolution forces us to choose life or death.
There are no surprises in the Void which Binds and the advertised short-cuts do not exist.
(from an essay: What Does Becoming Human Mean – by Sha’Tara)
[size=150]In real life, however, you don’t react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator? [/size]
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
[size=150]"The swirl of a galaxy and the swirl of a gown resemble one another not merely by accident, but because they follow the grain of the universe.‘’
"Hunting for Hope’’ - Scott Russell Sanders
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[size=150]I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. [/size]
G. K. CHESTERTON