Thought A Day

May
11th

Fri

A Story

A little six year old girl didn’t seem to pay attention much in class.
One day, during a drawing lesson the teacher noticed the girl deep in concentration. Curious, the teacher went over and asked the girl what she was drawing.

The girl said “I’m drawing a picture of God.”
“But nobody knows what God looks like,” the teacher responded.

“They will in a minute.”

— (Paraphrased from) Ken Robinson (In his TED talk, Oct 2006)

May
10th

Thu

without light, one cannot have shadow (darkness)
without darkness you would not appreciate the light, it would just be

without life, there can be no death
without death, one would not appreciate the wonders of life, they would just be

The amount of beauty in our world is limitless, while the amount of pain and suffering is constrained. For beauty is an intrinsic quality of our near-infinite universe, while suffering is a product of the mere six billion people on our planet.

May
9th

Wed

The only thing we can reliably affect is ourselves. Therefore, be happy, for everything else is out of your control.

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

One may avoid suffering and sorrow, but simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love…live. Chained by the certitudes, the individual is a slave, and has forfeited freedom, only a person who risks is free.

This is about

Thoughts that make you think and grow.