Quote of the day

"Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim."
-E.Caddy

Hobgoblin

"The foolish consistency is the hobgblin of little minds."
--EMERSON--

The fact that one interpretation has been made for several centuries does not always mean that it is the best and the righteous one.

The fact that women are created different from men is undeniable. The fact that women experience different thing in this life is undeniable too. The different way of thinking, the different experience of undergoing this life will create different interpretation.

And why on earth do people easily say that someone new--that happens to be a woman--is wrong in interpreting something? Who has right to say that someone is right and someone is wrong? Who has right to say that someone else's interpretion must be wrong? Who has right to say that his/her interpreation is exactly what God meant for all human beings?

Nobody has proven it yet.
Again, I want to quote what Buddha said:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

I am not Buddhist; I just use MY common sense in interviewing this life.

Buddha say (2)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Nana's comment: Be critical to whatever you see and hear. Be analytical to find the truth that is proper to your own common sense. Be intelligent.

Quote of the Day

"The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and
thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision."

G. K. Chesterton

"Right is right, no matter many people are against it. Wrong is wrong, no matter many people are for it."

William Penn

The most important thing, in my opinion, is that everybody respects everybody else, and nobody forces his/her way of thinking to anybody else, try to understand why someone opines something.

And let us live together peacefully with all our differences.

Buddha say ...

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"

How many of us believe in many things without using their commn sense? without being critical to what they believe in? without understanding the core of a certain problem?

However, I come to a conclusion why many youngsters of Indonesian people just become a copycat without using their common sense is caused by the older generations that always behave, "I know better coz I am older than you. Please just listen to me, and believe in anything I say," and they don't encourage the younger generations to be critical. Many older generations are even allergic to criticism.

So??? Here is the result => the younger generations that don't have their own way of thinking.

It reminds me of a book entitled, "Sekolah adalah candu" (Schools are just like opium).

Schools just produced smart copycats.

Emerson says ...

Some favorite quotes of mine from Ralph Waldo Emerson, an outstanding American thinker in the nineteenth century.

Ø The foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
Ø To be great is to be misunderstood
Ø To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men, that is genius
Ø Truth is handsomer than the affection of love
Ø You think me a child of my circumstance, I make my circumstance, let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.

LOVE

"Till I loved, I never lived--Enough." (Emily Dickinson)

How powerful is love in someone's life? To make someone feel not alive yet before loving someone? Being alive is not just a matter of being born in this mortal world, taking a breath, doing some activities, bla bla bla ... but one thing must be done--loving.
Well, I myself talked to my someone special that I will never ever be able to write a single poem if I am not in love. I, out of the blue, become a poet when in love.
My curiosity, is, is there any love that will not make us broken hearted?
Wise people say that there must be two contradictory things in something, to follow natural law about binary opposition? Love makes people happy in one certain time, and unhappy in another time. Love gives people sweet memories when they spend their precious time with the one they love, and bitter memories when they have to be away from the loved one.
When Ebit G. Ade said in his song, "Apakah ada bedanya, ketika kita bertemu, dengan saat kita berpisah, sama-sama nikmat, tinggal bagaimana kita menghayati..." No unhappiness ... no bitterness ... though we are away from the one we love. Or we just deceive ourselves by saying, "It's ok to be away from you, darling, coz I already have you on my mind, in my heart and my soul." Who is willing to be away from the one they love, I am wondering ...
I assume that I must agree that love is so powerful in someone's life.
But, to agree with what Emily Dickinson said ... well ... ... ...