You are working on a big project. You have to work for one month for the project. At every single day of the month, you have to be concentrated. You would have to be persistent to finish the work.

However, if at the beginning of every day, you decide to concentrate for only one day, the task would seem to be lighter. The psychological pressure would be much lower.

Then, at the beginning of another day, you decide to concentrate for only one day again.

Using this mechanism, you just have to be persistent for one day at every time, much easier than to be persistent for the whole month. However, you can still get the benefit of being persistent for the whole month.

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2008.04.19 Saturday

If you have concentrated all your mind, heart, and soul on the single task you are doing, you are going to create a good work. You would not know how many positive materials would be generated by that good work.

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2008.04.19 Saturday

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

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

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

You should know that

(1997 – 1999; study hard) (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

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

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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

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

Sending messages to your future-self is much easier.

Writing.

If you want to send a message to your ten-year-later-self, write it down. Put the message in a drawer. Do not read it until ten years later.

This is the meaning of writing.

2008.03.28 Friday

3.5 Time messenger

A time messenger is someone who can send and receive letters to and from the past and to and from the future.

You are a time messenger.

3.5.1 send messages to your past self

You cannot send messages into the past. Even if you can, you cannot receive it, for you have already become your now-self. Only your past-self can receive the message, your now-self cannot.

3.5.2 receive messages from your future self 接收來自未來的訊息

You can receive the message sent by your future self because you are your now-self now.

What if your future self did not send the message you want to receive?

That is nonsense. You are always creating your own future-self. Your future-self is under your control.

How to receive messages from your-future-self?

Vision: 先知先覺 洞悉先機

To receive messages from your future-self, you need vision.

Vision is a function of common sense. Common sense is a function of vast knowledge and creativity.

How to get such knowledge and creativity?

1. Read

2. Observe

3. Experience

4. Create

Then imagine yourself as your ten-year-later self. If you are yourself-in-ten-year-later, what would you want to tell your now-self?

2008.03.20 Thursday

3.4 Living in now-here, eliminate the passage of time

If you have always unleashed all the potential of time, you will not fear the passage of time. Since rather than being gone, time is transformed to something more valuable.

Just like when you have bought something that deserves much more than its cost, you would not feel that you have lost the money.

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2008.03.11 Tuesday

3.3 You are nowhere but nowhere

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People always have an escape-character.

We often think that the past is better than now (good-old-days thinking); or the future will be better than now (procrastination).

Thinking in either way is not useful, for you are always here, you are always in now.

You are in nowhere but now-here.

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2008.03.10 Monday

3.2 Now is the past of the future, the future of the past

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To get a feeling of traveling into the past, imagine you are a 22nd century person and enjoy the present technologies.

To get a feeling of traveling into the future, imagine you are a 19th century person and enjoy the present technologies.

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2008.03.04 Tuesday

Storyline 1 … to be a time traveler …

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3.1 In the beginning, …

Time traveling means traveling through time to different eras in history.

To the best knowledge of the known physical laws, time traveling is not feasible.

I was really disappointed until I started to realize that …

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3.1.1 in a sense, we are all time travellers

We are travelling into the future now.

If you want to preserve your coordinates, , in space, you can simply choose not to move. You can be static in space. You can choose not to change your position in space.

However, even if you want to preserve your time coordinate, , you cannot.

You are always moving from the past, through now, into the future.

The -coordinate in always increases.

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2008.02.26 Tuesday