Quote of the Day - [3]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom:

first, by reflection, which is noblest;

second, by imitation, which is easiest;

and third, by experience, which is the most bitter."

Confucius


{K & J}

Oneness

All things in this creation exist within you;
and all things in you exist in creation.
There is no border between you and the closest things,
and there is no distance between you and the farthest things,
and all things from the lowest to the loftiest,
from the smallest to the greatest,
are within you as equal things.
In one atom are found all the elements of the earth;
in one motion of the mind are found the motions of all the laws of existence;
in one drop of water are found the secrets of all the endless oceans;
in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence.


Kahlil Gibran

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

US

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation.
Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.
I can dispense then with artificial stimulants.
But I abhor the dull routine of existence.
I crave for mental exaltation.
That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

{K/J}