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My daily aphorisms. Reflections on life, death, beauty, change, love, happiness, etc., written in a poetic and whimsical style.
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- Everything is real when it happens and a dream aft...
- Gravity is true for matter but not for the spirit.
- Behind every mask there is a face and behind that ...
- Happiness exists, but not the conditions of happin...
- Knowing how to sing, and being able to sing, is st...
- Experiences for which there are no words get along...
- Every line is the perfect length if you don't meas...
- Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying eve...
- If you want to set your life in order, consider it...
- Should I refuse the honey because the bee stings?
- When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to gi...
- Suppose nothing is wrong. What do you do, then?
- Spend yourself; there's plenty more.
- Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread ea...
- Let every breeze draw you out of yourself.
- The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.
- Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
- Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
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No, we are the ones who project ourselves and our emotions on to--whatever happens to be convenient at the time!
ReplyDeleteI loved this one! :)
Melinda
so true, we have the power to determine how we deal with the things outside of all our control!
ReplyDeleteI think it's called anthropomorphizing. We humans have a tendency to do that.
ReplyDeleteI was just writing about anthropomorphism yesterday...it's so prevalent in our day-to-day. What these natural elements connote is contingent on our frame of mind at the time, I suppose...so this being said, I am looking at a very kind and benevolent wind tickling the trees across the street :)
ReplyDeleteIt's all good.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about being proactive.
ReplyDeleteThe bareness of wind and rain are so refreshing without the superimposition of all our mind-stuff. This aphorism wakes me up to the difference between is-ness and the mind-made world masquerading as reality. Thank you!
ReplyDeleten.p. the incisive cut-to-the-chase boldness of your words has lit up some energy in me, and I'd like to share a few sentences inspired by your aphorisms.
This moment holds everything I want.
Stepping off the treadmill of futile activity is a radical act.
The root addiction is the addiction to me.
Thank you n.p. for your invigorating blogs.
Yep, it's all perception.
ReplyDeleteNo they're not angry, but often they sound it during a hurricane.
ReplyDeleteI love this!
ReplyDeleteyet their indifference at times makes me melancholy.
ReplyDelete@Colleen: Those are great, and set me thinking, too. I'm so glad we can ignite this flame in each other. That's what writing should do.
ReplyDeleteThank you n.p.
ReplyDeleteYes, wind selflessly touch everybody. Rain just give, never complain anything.
ReplyDeleteWe ought to learn from the wind and rain.
All seround us is only a symbol..as life is a symbolic too:)
ReplyDeleteUniverse is perfect.Imperfection lies in our judgement...
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
God bless.
Nature is a process of events quite indifferent to us. We respond to its beauty and force emotionally. but we must beware of ascribing human emotions to it, it has none.
ReplyDeleteSo, be like the wind and stay like the rain!
ReplyDeleteLife is purely how you perceive it. So you might as well perceive it purely.
ReplyDeleteThe wind and rain are both deliberate and exciting! Marty, you rocked this new site, I can see it! =) It's good to see you're on a roll every single day. Hehe.
ReplyDeleteoh...never never.. :)
ReplyDeleteThe wind is never angry,
ReplyDeleteThe rain is never sad,
The sun never smiles,
On what this land had,
Except when the moon sails,
Clothed in day dreams,
The queen of the night sings,
'Nothing is as it seems'.