There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them thinks all society insulted in his person.
And the young man covered his face with his hand; and many a time afterwards, in the course of his life, shuddered at seeing how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savage coarseness is concealed beneath delicate, refined worldliness, and even, O God! in that man whom the world acknowledges as honourable and noble.
trying unsuccessfully for three minutes to thread his needle, and was enraged at the darkness and even at the thread, growling in a low voice, “It won’t go through, the barbarian! you pricked me, you rascal!”
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
FOREST GUMP
Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.
Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny: Yeah.
Forrest: Aren't I going to be me?
Jenny: I'll always be your girl.
Dick Cavett: Forrest Gump, John Lennon.
John Lennon: Welcome home.
Dick Cavett: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
Forrest: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest: And in China, they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion, too?
Dick Cavett: Oh. Hard to imagine.
John Lennon: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.
Forrest: (voice-over) Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody shot him.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Buddha
In this world the wise one holds onto confidence and wisdom. Those are the greatest treasures; all other riches are pushed aside.
He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds.
H.G. Wells, the distinguished thinker, assigned to Him the first place amongst the seven great men in the world.
The poet Tagore calls Him the Greatest Man ever born
He had realized that whatever truth a man may reach is reached best by a nourished brain in a healthy body -- From H G wells A short History of the world
The starting point of his teaching was his own question as a fortunate young man, “Why am I not completely happy?” It was an introspective question. It was a question very different in quality from the frank and self-forgetful externalized curiosity with which Thales and Heraclitus were attacking the problems of the universe, or the equally self-forgetful burthen of moral obligation that the culminating prophets were imposing upon the Hebrew mind. The Indian teacher did not forget self, he concentrated upon self and sought to destroy it. All suffering, he taught, was due to the greedy desires of the individual. Until man has conquered his personal cravings his life is trouble and his end sorrow. There were three principal forms that the craving for life took and they were all evil. The first was the desire of the appetites, greed and all forms of sensuousness, the second was the desire for a personal and egotistic immortality, the third was the craving for personal success, worldliness, avarice and the like. All these forms of desire had to be overcome to escape from the distresses and chagrins of life. When they were overcome, when self had vanished altogether, then serenity of soul, Nirvana, the highest good was attained.
-- From H G wells A short History of the world
I have not explained that the world is eternal or not eternal. I have not explained that the world is finite or infinite.
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds.
H.G. Wells, the distinguished thinker, assigned to Him the first place amongst the seven great men in the world.
The poet Tagore calls Him the Greatest Man ever born
He had realized that whatever truth a man may reach is reached best by a nourished brain in a healthy body -- From H G wells A short History of the world
The starting point of his teaching was his own question as a fortunate young man, “Why am I not completely happy?” It was an introspective question. It was a question very different in quality from the frank and self-forgetful externalized curiosity with which Thales and Heraclitus were attacking the problems of the universe, or the equally self-forgetful burthen of moral obligation that the culminating prophets were imposing upon the Hebrew mind. The Indian teacher did not forget self, he concentrated upon self and sought to destroy it. All suffering, he taught, was due to the greedy desires of the individual. Until man has conquered his personal cravings his life is trouble and his end sorrow. There were three principal forms that the craving for life took and they were all evil. The first was the desire of the appetites, greed and all forms of sensuousness, the second was the desire for a personal and egotistic immortality, the third was the craving for personal success, worldliness, avarice and the like. All these forms of desire had to be overcome to escape from the distresses and chagrins of life. When they were overcome, when self had vanished altogether, then serenity of soul, Nirvana, the highest good was attained.
-- From H G wells A short History of the world
I have not explained that the world is eternal or not eternal. I have not explained that the world is finite or infinite.
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