New Orts #11
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor teaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
-- all, D. H. Laurence (1885–1930)
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The Buddhists say Enlightenment is an accident.
Meditation makes you accident-prone.
LOL re the Maugham quote, good enough, but I quote Louis Pasteur, "Luck favors the prepared mind", and since I never claimed to be a wit I shall continue to do so.