Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 31
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well
Julian of Norwich
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Wisdom 32
A man needs a little madness—or else
he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Source: Zorba the Greek
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Wisdom 33
There is some necessity for being, or learning to be, in some degree independent of what anyone thinks of you, even the person for whom you care most. You have to think so well of yourself that in the end you cannot continue to care in the same degree for a person who does not care for you. The paradox is that when you have learned this to a certain extent it sometimes works out that you are a better person and more cared for by the other person.
W. Dean Hopkins
Comment: Dad wrote this to me more than 40 years ago when my girlfriend broke up with me. It's still true.
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Wisdom 34
What Needs Doing?
1. What needs doing that I alone in the universe can do?
2. What needs doing that I can ask someone else to do and then check on the result?
3. What needs doing that I can ask someone else to do and then forget about?
via Ed Mayhew
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Wisdom 35
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask you one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?
Where we stopped dancing, singing, being enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence is where we have experienced the loss of soul. Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four universal salves.
Angeles Arrien
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Wisdom 36
To attain knowledge, add something every day.
To attain wisdom, remove something every day.
Lao Tzu
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Wisdom 37
To live is so startling
it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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Wisdom 38
Try a thing you haven’t done three times.
Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it.
And a third time, to figure out
whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson
Comment: Advice given at age 93
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Wisdom 39
The last of the human freedoms—
to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances;
to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Source: Man's Search For Meaning
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Wisdom 40
You can fall—but you must not lie down.
Dougie MacLean
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