Category: perspective
“We are buried beneath the weight of information,
which is being confused with knowledge,
quantity is being confused with abundance
and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
- Labels: corruption, ignorance, perspective, philosophy
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
- Labels: action, choice, commitment, history, human condition, perspective, philosophy
âThe best that we can do
is to be kindly and helpful
toward our friends and fellow passengers
who are clinging to the same speck of dirt
while we are drifting side by side
to our common doomâ
- Labels: altruism, compassion, earth, human condition, love, perspective
Ultimately we’re all dead men
sadly we cannot choose how but
we can decide how we meet that end
so that we are remembered as men
- Labels: courage, death, human condition, perspective, philosophy
Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.
The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily
preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes
- Labels: death, perspective, poor
They go to fight for freedom,
but they are dying for conquest !!!
A Samuraiâs Creed
Anonymous, Circa 1300
I have no parents;
I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.
I have no home;
I make awareness my dwelling.
I have no life and death;
I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power;
I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means;
I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets;
I make character my magic secret.
I have no body;
I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes;
I make the flash of lightning my eyes.
I have no ears;
I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs;
I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy;
I make âunshadowed by thoughtâ my strategy
I have no designs;
I make âseizing opportunity by the forelockâ my design.
I have no miracles;
I make right action my miracle.
I have no principles;
I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics;
I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents;
I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends;
I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy;
I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armor;
I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
I have no castle;
I make immovable mind my castle.
I have no sword;
I make absence of self my sword.
- Labels: action, enlightenment, experience, karma, perspective, philosophy
















