[b]Nikola Tesla
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.[/b]
We should all be so lucky.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
But only if you count women.
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
You may even be a part of them.
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Another one bites the dust, he thought.
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Finer fibers. Never heard that before. But point taken.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
Not that literally millions of them have much choice.