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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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- When in doubt, leap. One needs a little courage t...
- Include the unexpected in your plans.
- When your burden gets too heavy to carry, you lear...
- Where would you be if you left all your troubles b...
- If you don't play the game, you don't have to foll...
- When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it ...
- You have to let the balloon go if you want to see ...
- Summer taught me joy; winter, resignationSummer-th...
- Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to f...
- Words make known. But we live in the unknown.
- The mouse that fears the trap has already been tra...
- We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
- What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle sti...
- All roads lead to happiness, if happiness is the r...
- If you're glad to be alive the rest doesn't matter.
- There is music you never hear unless you play it y...
- No river could flow if it had to know its destinat...
- I like both: unicorns and horses.
- The sea will wash away our footprints but not the ...
- I have a bad memory. Every day seems new to me.
- Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
- Rain is the picnic when it rains.
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Well, I know I certainly do. Thanks, Marty.
ReplyDeleteThe juxtaposition is interesting; we can describe the world with words, but cannot mistake the description for the world. cheers
ReplyDeleteWords "make known" and can seem to remove us from the unknown in which we live. Words create a substitute reality that can be mistaken for reality. That is the potential trap of words/thought/mind/ego.
ReplyDeleteBut then aphorisms like this undo the error. Thank you.
Thank you for the aphorism. Such words are the best questions. You prompted me to re-think my values and thus enabled to return to God and His guidance.
ReplyDeleteThank you
I just read "The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size". Perhaps we could equate the following:
ReplyDeleteWords = Consciousness
Unknown = Unconsciousness
(or not)
Your aphorisms clearly connect with a multitude of visitors on many levels and I am extremely jealous ("So there, yah, boo, sucks!")
Keep up the good work, my friend.
Marty, I'm back, sort of...hovering between the known and the unknown ;-) Btw, have you thought of putting some of your aphorisms on t-shirts?
ReplyDeletethat's why we need words to make the unknown known
ReplyDeleteSo we know by reading them, but then don't know..Hmmm. Every moment is unknown.
ReplyDeleteWords create reality...
ReplyDeleteSo when we realize that language creates reality, we recognize the difficult to accept the fact that it is through and by means of words that we see and understand (or even misunderstand) what we call "reality."
Part of the wonder of life is its mystery!
ReplyDeleteYou know, the discussion on these is in some ways the best part of the aphorism? That's because a really good aphorism is supposed to incite discussion on a deep level. Way to go, Marty!
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