Chant.

Having striven, brahman, cut the stream.
Expel sensual passions.
Without abandoning sensual passions
a sage encounters no oneness of mind.

If something's to be done, then work at it firmly,
for a slack going-forth kicks up all the more dust.
It's better to leave a misdeed undone.
A misdeed burns you afterward.
Better that a good deed be done
that, when you've done it,
you don't regret.

Just as sharp-bladed grass, if wrongly held,
wounds the very hand that holds it —
the contemplative life, if wrongly grasped,
drags you down to hell.
Any slack act, or defiled observance,
or fraudulent life of chastity
bears no great fruit.

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever...”

sometimes we just need a laugh.. :)

Calvin and Hobbes

I love Calvin & Hobbes. It's the greatest comic ever - either lets you identify with the child in everyone, or it makes you laugh, whoever you are on the inside. Here are some of my favorite strips.


precisely the school system these days


how true..


the most touching one


this speaks for itself

paperwork

Seeds of Life

If you plant honesty, you will reap trust.

If you plant goodness, you will reap friends.

If you plant humility, you will reap greatness.

If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment.

If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective.

If you plant hard work, you will reap success.

If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.

Be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

my thoughts on quotes

i've always liked quotes. perhaps it is because i feel less-equipped to put across my own thoughts.
but sometimes, it's because they let us know other people share the same thoughts n feelings like our own.

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
John Churton Collins

"A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain."
William Shakespeare

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
Hecato, Greek philosopher

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."
Italian Proverb

"Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away."
Alexander Pope

and to round it off, on this sharing of quotes,
"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own."
Michel de Montaigne