The lines I find inspiring are...
We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time...
T. S. Eliot
2007-02-17 19:55:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hi Everyone, there are some lovely lines there. I am still unable to rate I'm afraid!
Many thanks for your answers...
2007-02-17 21:26:54 · update #1
Hi again, everyone,
there are some lovely words written in your lists, and I shall print them off, so that I can look into them more fully...
Sorry, I stll can't rate them.
They are all thumbs up anyway!
Many thanks, Cassandra
2007-02-18 00:46:52 · update #2
Think about it
Look up, the sky,
you are in it, floating,
think about it.
look down, the earth,
you are on it, growing,
think about it.
look around, creation,
you are part of it, existing,
think about it.
look within, the mystery,
you are it, living,
think about it.
look again, the whole
don't think about it,
love it
2007-02-19 20:47:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am the ocean, you are the raindrops. We are the same. You raindrops, because of your similar size and location, see yourselves as separate, as units, as individuals. This perception of your selves has been your only reality since you were born in the clouds. You have no other perspective of your selves. As you fall through your short lives here, you see the ocean far below. On a certain level you understand that it and you are one and the same. You envy its magnificence. The thought comes,” I am water too, am I not also part of this magnificence?” Then you realize that you are but an insignificant raindrop. You can only look at that distant ocean in awe. The ocean with its timeless knowledge sees you quite differently. It sees you for what you really are. Its most precious children, bravely returning home to share the experience that ocean as a whole could never have experienced. The ocean has nothing but love for you. Because it understands that it is you, and that you are it. It knows only truth. Until the moment you reunite you can only speculate. The ocean's love for you is unconditional. It holds no foolish thought of punishing you for not falling quite right. It only waits with great patience for your homecoming.
The tiny collisions you had with the other drops on the way down, at the time seemed so significant. Often you feared that if you mingled with them too long you might get to close and in the process even lose your identity. All this because you understood your true identity not! You are ocean, you always were ocean, you always will be ocean. How you currently perceive yourself raindrop, snow flake, puddle, stream, River, or lake matters not. This is all illusion, only perception. You are ocean, you are spirit. You and I are one; we are the All That Is!
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-18 09:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like that and I want to add it to my collection, If you don't mind. I have several that inspire me and I will be glad to share themm with you.
“ If you don’t know where your going.
Any road will take you there.”
George Harrison
If you always do what you always did,
you will always get what you always got.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom,
one helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.
James Oppenheim
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Doug Floyd
Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
2007-02-18 04:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I heard a story about Ernest Hemingway being interviewed shortly after WWII. It was in a hotel room over looking New York's Central Park. He was asked how long it took him to write The Sun Also Rises.
He thought for a second and responded "Well everything but the last chapter took about six weeks. The last chapter took about five months."
Surprised, the interviewer asked why so long on the last chapter.
"Well," Hemingway began, looking at her like it was the stupidest question he'd ever heard. "Because I had to get the f*****g words right."
As a writer that has always stuck with me.
2007-02-19 20:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Andy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To see a world in a grain of sand
Or a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
That's by William Blake (the guy who wrote Jerusalem) and I'm not sure why or how it inspires me, as distinct from me just liking it, but it always does. It's got these great undertones of childhood and holidays and nature and beauty, in so few, simple words.
To me it's about stopping to enjoy the wonders of life, and about how much you ARE even if you aren't in the middle of some great work. I always come away from it feeling better and feeling more like doing something.
2007-02-18 16:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Snakey B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That great American philosopher, Lilly Tomlin came up with the incomparable : Remember, even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!
And Dorothy Parker's unforgettable : Life is not a dress rehearsal.
2007-02-18 06:16:25 · answer #6 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sad cure, for who would lose , though full of hate
This intellectual being.
Those thoughts that wander through eternity
To perish rather,
Swallowed up and lost in the wide womb of uncreated night.
Milton
Paradise Lost
2007-02-19 15:16:21 · answer #7 · answered by ragdoll 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.one old love
she can imagine
going back to..
and one who reminds
her how far she has come...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.enough money within her
control to move out and
rent a place of her own
even if she never wants
to or
needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.something perfect to wear if
the employer or date of her dreams
wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
a youth she's content
to leave behind...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.a past juicy enough that
she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.a set of screwdrivers,
cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.one friend who always makes
her laugh... and one who lets
her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.a good piece of furniture
not previously owned by anyone
else in her family..
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.eight matching plates, wine
glasses with stems, and a recipe
for a meal that will make her
guests feel honored..
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.a feeling of control over
her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW.
.how to fall in love without
losing herself...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to quit a job,
break up with a lover,
and confront a friend
without ruining the friendship...
and how to change a
tyre!!!!!!!
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
.when to try harder... and
when to walk away...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
.that she can't change the
length of her calves, the width
of her hips, or the nature of her
parents...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not
have been perfect...but its
over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
.what she would and wouldn't
do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if
she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
.whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
.where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table..
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't
accomplish in a day..
a month...and a year...
2007-02-18 04:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by blahblahblah 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hi there, T.S. Eliot has a lovely way with words!!
A particular quote which I find inspiring is: 'The people that matter don't mind, and the people that mind don't matter!'
2007-02-18 06:07:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from Heaven, with a dome more vast,
Till though at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
2007-02-18 07:12:47 · answer #10 · answered by obsidianfox13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
life is for living, and mine has just begun,
to make lots of people smile, would be oh
such lovely fun,
if i can change the world
for just one minute would be great ,
to do away with wars
and make all races mates
and do away with poverty
so everyone has stuff
to make their lives so brilliant
there will always be enough
cos life is for living
and mine has just begun
lets save the earth from hatred
and love and peace to
everyone
2007-02-18 04:10:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋