Buddhism has something to say about that. Something to do with useful truth and non-useful truth. Don’t remember. Too late now. I have to be up early.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
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When everything that is illusion is removed, all that remains is consciousness.
3 comments:
Indeed. Sometimes its necessary to hurt someone's feelings, but then again, sometimes its not. I guess it depends on how important the person is to you. Either you way probably shouldn't pretend, but if that person were, for example, your mother, it wouldn't hurt to make her feel good about who her son is (not that she doesn't already, of course)
Sometimes people are just struggling to be understood or appreciated so maybe it isn't always relevant to be oneself or not in response. People don't always want to be agreed with, they just want someone to say, "I can imagine how you feel," and so on. It is hard to remember this, in fact, I forget all the time.
Maria: I think the trick is to try to hurt people's feelings only when it serves some general or specific good, not just because you feel iritable that day or you don't like them. I'm guilty of both, especially the latter. I'm working on it.
Della: I know what you mean, and that's one area in which I seem to be improving. I'm not sure, though, that we can 'imagine' how somebody is feeling. Sometimes, maybe, but in general I still think we can only really empathise when we've had the same feeling ourselves.
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