There are too many serious people trying to get everybody else to be too darned serious

Of course, you can’t unfry an egg, but there is no law against thinking about it. Continue reading

You have your thought and I have mine

Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud moving in the space. It turns into drops which, as they fall, form a brook that sings its way into the sea. Then it rises as vapour into the sky. Your thought is a fortress that neither gale nor the lightning can shake. My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve.

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Certainty and Doubt

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
 Bertrand Russell