Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
— Helen Keller
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2007.11.16 Friday CHK2
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
— Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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2007.11.10 Saturday CHK2
BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
My general formula for my students is “Follow your bliss.” Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow it.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pp. 120, 149
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2007.11.07 Wednesday CHK2
Emerson also stresses originality, believing in one’s own genius and living from within.
— Wikipedia
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2007.11.04 Sunday CHK2
But I would emphasize one other, indispensable ingredient in this recipe for change: these four young people all summoned the passion, the courage, and the will to act–to take their stand against injustice. … ; but as these four students showed, defying danger and their own doubts, each of us can create our own logic of events and, by acting, turn the dreams of one age into the “inevitabilities” of the next.
— Robert Weisbrot, The Ivory Tower Reconsidered
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2007.10.29 Monday CHK2
Everything can be described as either yin or yang.
1. Yin and yang are opposites.
Everything has its opposite—although this is never absolute, only comparative. No one thing is completely yin or completely yang. Each contains the seed of its opposite. For example, cold can turn into hot; “what goes up must come down”.
2. Yin and yang are interdependent.
One cannot exist without the other. For example, day cannot exist without night.
3. Yin and yang can be further subdivided into yin and yang.
Any yin or yang aspect can be further subdivided into yin and yang. For example, temperature can be seen as either hot or cold. However, hot can be further divided into warm or burning; cold into cool or icy.
4. Yin and yang consume and support each other.
Yin and yang are usually held in balance—as one increases, the other decreases. However, imbalances can occur. There are four possible imbalances: Excess yin, excess yang, yin deficiency, yang deficiency.
5. Yin and yang can transform into one another.
At a particular stage, yin can transform into yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death.
6. Part of Yin is in Yang and part of Yang is in Yin.
The dots in each serve as a reminder that there are always traces of one in the other. For example, humans will always be both good and evil, never completely one or the other.
— Wikipedia
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2007.10.27 Saturday CHK2
To be great is to be misunderstood.
— Emerson
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2007.10.22 Monday CHK2
However, Emerson articulates that although one has unlimited potential in oneself, few actually possess the confidence to develop his mind fully.
— Wikipedia on Emerson’s essay Self Reliance
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2007.10.21 Sunday CHK2
The journey is the destination.
— Me
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2007.10.15 Monday (c) CHK2
一生之中兜兜轉轉 那會看清楚
徬徨時我也試過獨坐一角像是沒協助
— 李克勤
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2007.10.06 Saturday CHK2
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— The Dilbert Principle
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2007.09.23 Sunday CHK2
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點滴累積
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2007.09.19 Wednesday (c) CHK2
2.4.1.2
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緣
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因果網絡中的故事線
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2007.09.17 Monday (c) CHK2
隨緣
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坐上時間的倒車
回到昨天
也許更前
一一彌補曾經的遺憾
改正錯誤的答案
錯恨不再難返
覆水重收自然而然
然而卻發現
修改後的結果
竟然
比以前更亂
究竟如何才是最佳
苦苦思索答案
頓悟之後才明白
一切隨緣
— 寧夏銀川 高廟
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2007.09.12 CHK2
每一個晚上 我將會遠望
無涯星海 點點星光
求萬里星際燃點你路
叮囑風聲代呼喚你千趟
— 林振強
2007.09.04 CHK2
Do not worry about what others are thinking about you,
for they are not thinking about you,
they are thinking about what you think about them.
— Wikipedia’s random post
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2007.09.03 CHK2
曲:李毅/梁智強 詞:梁智強 主唱: 陳國榮
《小孩不笨》主題曲
誰不希望自己是聰明的人
誰不希望什麼都能一百分
誰能希望自己又呆又傻又愚蠢
誰會願意聽到你真的好笨
有些事情就是這樣的殘忍
有些道路沒有直通那扇門
有些遊戲結果不一定要獲勝
有些收穫不在終點只在過程
我們不會心灰意冷
我們會給自己掌聲
我不是你想像的笨
我也有我自己的門
其實你不是不能
只是你肯不肯
給自己多一個機會
因為我們都是有用的人
2007.08.18 CHK2
Wikipedia:
在倫理學上，斯賓諾莎認為，一個人只要受制於外在的影響，他就是處於奴役狀態，而只要和上帝達成一致，人們就不再受制於這種影響，而能獲得相對的自由，也因此擺脫恐懼。
斯賓諾莎還主張無知是一切罪惡的根源。
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Wikipedia:
斯賓諾莎還認為上帝是每件事的「內在因」，上帝通過自然法則來主宰世界，所以物質世界中發生的每一件事都有其必然性；世界上只有上帝是擁有完全自由的，而人雖可以試圖去除外在的束縛，卻永遠無法獲得自由意志。如果我們能夠將事情看作是必然的，那麼我們就愈容易與上帝合為一體。因此，斯賓諾莎提出我們應該「在永恆的相下」（sub specie aeternitatis）看事情。
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Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, on Spinoza:
Only ignorance makes us think that we can alter the future;
what will be will be,
and the future is as unalterably fixed as the past.
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2007.07.05 CHK2
will become a young old man.
— Benjamin Franklin
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2007.07.01 CHK2
Mara: “You who go where others dare not; Will you be my God? The architect of my house?”
Siddharta: “Finally I meet the illusion of self; Your evil house will not be built again.”
Mara: “But you live in me; I am your house.”
Siddharta: “O, trickster; phantom of my own ego, you are pure illusion. You, self, do not exist. The earth is my witness to this Supreme Enlightenment.”
— Wikipedia
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2007.06.20 CHK2
Physics Town 
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