"...the measuring of worth and sucess in terms of time, and the insistent demand for assurances of a promising future make it impossible to live freely both in the present and in "the promising" future when it arrives. For there is never anything but the present and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere..." ~Alan Watts~
...For a man rings like a cracked bell when he thinks and acts with a split mind -- one part standing aside to interfere with the other, to control, to condemn, or to admire" ~Alan Watts~
You see, you hesitate. But as a captain you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions, based on imperfect information, asking men to carry out orders that may end up in their death. And if you're wrong you suffer the consequences. If you're not prepared to make those decisions without pause, without reflection, then you've got no business being a submarine captain. U571
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the mehanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison." ~Albert Einstein~
You can cut water with a knife, yet water alone cut the grand canyon out of solid rock... ~Alan Watts~
There is nothing in the world weaker than water; yet there is no better in overcoming what is hard and strong... ~Lao Tzu~
Eddie Felson: Boy you don't leave much on the table when ya miss do ya fat man??? Minnesota Fats: That's what the gams all about, no? The Hustler
He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn't play for the money he wins He don't play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart He may play the jack of diamonds He may lay the queen of spades He may conceal a king in his hand While the memory of it fades I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart. And if I told you that I loved you You'd maybe think there's something wrong I'm not a man of too many faces The mask I wear is one Well, those who speak know nothin' And find out to their cost Like those who curse their luck in too many places And those who fear are lost I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart But that's not the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart ~STING; Shape of my heart~
Time present and time past; Are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternaly present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden... ~T. S. Elliot~ (reflecting upon Lewis Carrol's opening chapter of Alice in Wonderland)