Sunday, September 11, 2011

Carlos Casaneda

A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and struggle. The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. Since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, and our manhood.

其实,一个人干什么并不重要,生活的方式有千万种,好与不好只是相对而言。酸甜苦辣是一定的。 重要的是,他是不是以一个勇士的身份出现,敢不敢于面对生活的挑战,他是不是在驾驭生活,还是被生活所驾驭。如果一个人缺乏精神的话,不管他其它方面多么富有,他的生活都不会稳定。

John Muir

We all flow from one source-soul. - John Muir

Friday, September 9, 2011

What we dread the most

From Father Brown Crime Stories
Page vii: What we dread most, is a maze with no center. We ourselves are the most unknowable labyrinths. We hide ourselves as though we were "scene shifters"; we build our houses, dress our bodies, speak our speeches to conceal our real natures, but in the act of hiding, we are revealed.