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3.6.5 Be always ready

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Ecclesiastes 11:4

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never sow anything and never harvest anything.

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Mother Teresa:

The important thing is not to do a lot or to do everything. The important thing is to be ready for anything, at all the times; to be convinced that when serving the poor, we really serve God.

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2008.04.19 Saturday \copyright CHK^2

3.6.4 Now-here-I: the holographic universe

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Sometimes, when I have more than one thing to do, while I am doing one of the things, I keep worrying about the things that I am not doing. This kind of thinking is silly.

When I put my soul in one thing, that thing becomes positive and becomes a positive part of my soul. This gives me enthusiasm to achieve other things effectively.

Just like a holographic film, every part of the film stores all the information needed to reconstruct the whole image. Just like DNA, any single cell in my body contains ALL the DNA data needed to reconstruct my whole body.

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2007.04.19 Saturday \copyright CHK^2

3.6.3 Where are you? Part 2

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3.6.3 You are all of yourselves

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Sometimes, you may wonder whether you can meet your past-self or your future-self through time travelling.

What you do not remember is that you are your own past-self, your own present-self, and your own future-self.

You are all of your-past-present-future-selves.

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2007.04.19 Saturday \copyright CHK^2

3.6.2 Where ARE you?

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3.6.2 Where is your past-self? Where is your future-self?

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They are all now-here. They are all the YOU-now-here.

Now I am a 23-year-old man studying for my master degree. Sometimes, I am re-connected to my 5-year-old mind. I think I am still a 5-year-old boy. I am a 5-year-old who is enjoying university and graduate school now.

Sometimes, I think I am my 90-year-old self, an old man, traveling back in time, to re-live and taste my 23-year-old life, to review my youth.

— Me@2003

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2008.04.16 Wednesday \copyright CHK^2

3.6.1 Foresight: prequel

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Suppose you are an A-Level student. You desire to be a university student.

You should know that

(1997 – 1999; study hard) \Leftrightarrow (1999 – 2002; university student)

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In 1997, I wanted to be a university student. I could not transform myself to be a university student immediately. I could not travel to 1999, becoming a university student at once. However, I knew that, ideally, if I worked hard (and worked smartly) now (1997), I would be able to enter university. In other words, the event “being a university student in 1999” is equivalent to the event “studying hard in 1997”.

I could not control an event in 1999 as it was in my future. But I could control the present-equivalence of that future event.

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2008.04.13 Sunday \copyright CHK^2

3.6 Now-here-I

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David Brower:

Think Globally, Act Locally

小處著手 大處著眼

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An Anglican bishop:

When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits,
I dreamed of changing the world;
As I grew older and wiser I realized the world would not change.

And I decided to shorten my sights somewhat
and change only my country.
But it too seemed immovable.

As I entered my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt,
I sought to change only my family, those closest to me,
but alas they would have none of it.

And now here I lie on my death bed and realize
(perhaps for the first time)
that if only I’d changed myself first,

then by example I may have in
my family and with their encouragement
and support I may have bettered my country,
and who knows I may change the world.

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Mahatma Gandhi:

We must be the change we seek in the world.

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(myself: )

Now-here-I philosophy:

Transform all your goals to a single step that you can work on now and here, by yourself.

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2008.04.12 Saturday \copyright CHK^2

3.5.8 preserve time

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You can’t preserve time by not using it. When time is not used, time would still pass.

You can preserve time only by using it, spending it, investing it, transforming it into something much more valuable.

If you know how to preserve time, you do not fear the passage of time. Instead, you love the passage. As time goes, more good works are getting done.

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2008.04.10 Thursday \copyright CHK^2

當下即是

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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those live in present.

— Wittgenstein

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This quotation induces me to have the following thought:

If you concentrate on a meaningful work now and here, you preserve your infinity. (No explanation here.)

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2008.04.09 Wednesday \copyright CHK^2

3.5.7 palm

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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild
Hold infinity in a palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour

— William Blake

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無人能夠奪去屬於我的一秒鐘.

我永遠存活在那一秒鐘 –

過去, 現在, 未來, 盡收其中.

— Mr. Lee’s 網上思考

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一沙一世界
一花一天堂
掌中握無限
刹那即永恆

— 佛家

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2008.04.07 Monday \copyright CHK^2

Nobel Prize x 2, part 1

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The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956

Bardeen brought only one of his three children to the Nobel Prize ceremony. His two sons were studying at Harvard University, and Bardeen didn’t wanted to disrupt their studies. King Gustav scolded Bardeen because of this, and Bardeen assured the King that the next time he would bring all his children to the ceremony.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972

In 1972, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon Neil Cooper of Brown University and John Robert Schrieffer of the University of Pennsylvania for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.

Bardeen did bring all his children to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

— Wikipedia

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

— Aristotle

— Me@2022.09.12 01:07:54 PM

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2008.04.06 Sunday CHK_2

3.5.5 regrets

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Sometimes, you have done something you regret. You want to go to the past to undo what you have done. You cannot do so as you are already your-now-self. You cannot become your-past-self anymore. You cannot send a message to your-past-self.

Sometime in the future, your-future-self would have done something he regrets. He wants to go to his past to undo what he has done. He cannot do so as he is already his-now-self. He cannot become his-past-self anymore.

However, YOU can help him. His past-self is YOU. His past-self is your now-self. You can know what he has done wrong by receiving messages from him.

 

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

— Victor E. Frankl

 

 

2008.03.30 Sunday \copyright CHK^2

3.5.3 deja vu 似曾相識

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Extend yourself

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To meet your past and future self now, just extend you to other people, e.g. your brother, your grandpa …

The method is to extend yourself beyond your personal-self. When you see your younger brother, you may regard him as your past-self. When you see an old person, you may regard him as your future-self.

Learning from other people’s experience can emulate the effect of receiving messages from your future-self.

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2008.03.27 Thursday \copyright CHK^2