Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 101
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver
Source: "Late Fragment" in A New Path to the Waterfall
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Wisdom 102
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
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Wisdom 103
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
Source: "Burnt Norton" in "Four Quartets" AND "Murder in the Cathedral"
Comment: Eliot must have thought this was important enough to say twice!
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Wisdom 104
The platform is like a rough plank theater-stage
Built on the brow of the promontory: as if our blood had labored
all around the earth from Asia
To play its mystery before strict judges at last, the final ocean
and sky to prove our nature
More Shining than that of the other animals. It Is rather ignoble
in its quiet times, mean in its pleasures,
Slavish in the mass; but at stricken moments it can shine terribly
against the dark magnificence of things.
Robinson Jeffers
Source: Concluding lines of "Thurso's Landing"
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Wisdom 105
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end which is always present.
T. S. Eliot
Source: "Burnt Norton" in "Four Quartets"
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Wisdom 106
Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.
T. S. Eliot
Source: "Burnt Norton" in "Four Quartets"
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Wisdom 107
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness.
T. S. Eliot
Source: "The Dry Salvages" from "The Four Quartets"
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Wisdom 108
We old pilots never die,
we just move to another plane.
Walt Hopkins
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Wisdom 109
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
Source: Title of a poem
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Wisdom 110
The future is not a result of choices among
alternative paths offered by the present, but a
place that is created—created first in the mind
and will, created next in activity. The future is
not some place we are going to, but one we
are creating. The paths are not to be found,
but made, and the activity of making them,
changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar
Source: Unknown; please let me know if you know the source.
Comment: This is a great description of Appreciative Inquiry.
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