Insights, Snippets, Quotes, Epiphanies & All That Sort of Things

[Florestan]

The most extreme case being the advice give by Tolstoy, that one should only want death because it's the only thing one will certainly get. 

[Karl Henning]

I am in the middle and try to focus my wanting on what I can reasonably have.

The most extreme case being the advice give by Tolstoy, that one should only want death because it's the only thing one will certainly get. 

Few go dark like a Russian goes dark.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I am in the middle and try to focus my wanting on what I can reasonably have.

I remember that's one of Stoics' teachings. Maybe Buddhist too.

[steve ridgway]

I remember that's one of Stoics' teachings. Maybe Buddhist too.

Oh, thanks for that. Perhaps I'll look the Stoics up then .

[AnotherSpin]

I am in the middle and try to focus my wanting on what I can reasonably have.

Middle-enjoyment is yours then.

If serious, you're entitled to want whatever you want, just: a) know that you don't control the outcome, b) don't object to what is.

[steve ridgway]

Oh, thanks for that. Perhaps I'll look the Stoics up then .

Yeah, just more ideas, I think when it comes to philosophy I'm on my own .

[AnotherSpin]

Yeah, just more ideas, I think when it comes to philosophy I'm on my own .

No philosophy required to know that you are and get hold of this knowing

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

We are interested in others when they are interested in us - Publilius Syrus.

[Karl Henning]

Seen on Threads:

Sometimes there's no other way to describe certain men other than to say, "if I were a woman, I'd cover my drink around him."

[Karl Henning]

"You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass."
- Buddha

[NumberSix]

"The storm will pass."

Sometimes I wonder. 

[Karl Henning]

Sometimes I wonder. 

I feel ya!

[LKB]

Sometimes I wonder. 

The storm will certainly pass. What concerns me is, how much of what is important will be left in its wake.

[Karl Henning]

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. —Benjamin Franklin.

[drogulus]

     Surely not EVERYBODY was Kung Fu fighting! - Guy On Web

[Karl Henning]

Surely not EVERYBODY was Kung Fu fighting! - Guy On Web

His quarrel is just. 

[T. D.]

I always liked that cheesy song.
For some reason I recall being surprised that it was being played (ff) in a Bangkok shopping mall circa 1979. Maybe that's the reason I remember it fondly.

[LKB]

I always liked that cheesy song.
For some reason I recall being surprised that it was being played (ff) in a Bangkok shopping mall circa 1979. Maybe that's the reason I remember it fondly.

Then again, if there ever came a time when everybody really was Kung-fu fighting, surely Bangkok is as likely a spot as anywhere else. 

[Karl Henning]

A friend posted this earlier this month:

From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the evil speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honor and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, O Lord.

[Karl Henning]

Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry.
    — Rod Serling