Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 - >ondemn none: >if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. >If you cannot, >fold your hands, >bless your brothers, >and let them go >their own way ====================================================== A fair enough what-Dan-would-call concept-per-se. (and I totally agree with him) However, as I love to stress, not to lose perspective , a concept nevertheless and hence a joke. Anand. ______________________ Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 Don't forget to love yourself and laugh at yourself. In the midst of the most terrible, wrenching, insidious thing inside you, laugh. That's the time you need it the most. You have to get something to counterbalance the tremendous terrible thing, and laughter starts to bring it out so it can balance out. If you don't feel like laughing, that's the time to laugh. If you've been practicing it, you can get it going>- > >ondemn none: > >if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. > >If you cannot, > >fold your hands, > >bless your brothers, > >and let them go > >their own way >====================================================== > > A fair enough what-Dan-would-call concept-per-se. >(and I totally agree with him) > However, as I love to stress, not to lose perspective >, a concept nevertheless and hence a joke. > > >Anand. > > >______________________ >Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now > at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 Hu are doon the whistles. I can do them,I can do them vry loud indeed. elf pursed up her lips and sticked her tongue just on the right spots.. and out comed a whistle that was very long and very shrill and very loud. Hmmm elf wriggled her ears and dood another one.. that was a size 51. that was.. Hmm concepts are jokes. now thats a food for a think.. that means i don't had to get all my larfs wiv the bees then. Hmmm anyways I are off to a party soon got to put on my blue spark shoes and get dressed up into my Goddess of illusion clobbers. Mmmm Leo King <leo_king111 wrote: Don't forget to love yourself and laugh at yourself.In the midst of the most terrible, wrenching, insidiousthing inside you, laugh. That's the time you need it themost. You have to get something to counterbalance thetremendous terrible thing, and laughter starts to bring itout so it can balance out.If you don't feel like laughing, that's the time to laugh.If you've been practicing it, you can get it going>-> >ondemn none:> >if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so.> >If you cannot,> >fold your hands,> >bless your brothers,> >and let them go> >their own way>======================================================>> A fair enough what-Dan-would-call concept-per-se.>(and I totally agree with him)> However, as I love to stress, not to lose perspective>, a concept nevertheless and hence a joke.>>>Anand.>>>______________________>Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now> at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html_______________Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 elf peeped fru the window screen and grinned. Are you comin to the party as well as me? I are goin I are goin there.. which is really just over here... > > > Hu are doon the whistles. I can do them,I can do them vry loud indeed. >elf pursed up her lips and sticked her tongue just on the right spots.. and >out comed a whistle that was very long and very shrill and very loud. Hmmm >elf wriggled her ears and dood another one.. that was a size 51. that was.. >Hmm concepts are jokes. now thats a food for a think.. that means i don't >had to get all my larfs wiv the bees then. >Hmmm >anyways I are off to a party soon got to put on my blue spark shoes and get >dressed up into my Goddess of illusion clobbers. Mmmm > Leo King <leo_king111 wrote: >Don't forget to love yourself and laugh at yourself. > >In the midst of the most terrible, wrenching, insidious >thing inside you, laugh. That's the time you need it the >most. You have to get something to counterbalance the >tremendous terrible thing, and laughter starts to bring it >out so it can balance out. > >If you don't feel like laughing, that's the time to laugh. >If you've been practicing it, you can get it going>- > > >ondemn none: > > >if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. > > >If you cannot, > > >fold your hands, > > >bless your brothers, > > >and let them go > > >their own way > >====================================================== > > > > A fair enough what-Dan-would-call concept-per-se. > >(and I totally agree with him) > > However, as I love to stress, not to lose perspective > >, a concept nevertheless and hence a joke. > > > > > >Anand. > > > > > >______________________ > >Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now > > at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html > > >_______________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 >The crazy wisdom of Francis of Assisi The heart has its own reasons, which the mind cannot understand. The heart has its own dimension of being, which is completely dark for the mind. The heart is higher and deeper than the mind, beyond the reach of it. It looks foolish. Love always looks foolish because love is not utilitarian. Mind is utilitarian. It uses everything for something else-- that is the meaning of being utilitarian. Mind is purposive, end-oriented; it turns everything into a means--and love cannot be turned into a means, that is the problem. Love in itself is the goal. Fools always have a subtle wisdom in them, and the wise always act like fools. In the old days all great emperors always had one fool in their court. They had many wise men, counselors, ministers and prime ministers, but always one fool. Why?--because there are things so-called wise men will not be able to understand, that only a foolish man can understand--because the so-called wise are so foolish that their cunningness and cleverness closes their minds. A fool is simple, and was needed because many times the so-called wise would not say something because they were afraid of the emperor. A fool is not afraid of anybody else, he will speak whatsoever the consequences. This is how fools act--simply, without thinking what the result will be. A clever man always thinks first of the result, then he acts. Thought comes first, then action. A foolish man acts; thought never comes first. Whenever someone realizes the ultimate, he is not like your wise men. He cannot be. He may be like your fools, but he cannot be like your wise men. When Saint Francis became enlightened he used to call himself " God's fool. " The pope was a wise man, and when Saint Francis went to see him even the pope thought this man had gone mad. He was intelligent, calculating, clever; otherwise how could he be a pope? To become a pope one has to pass through much politics. To become a pope diplomacy is needed, a competitive aggression is needed to put others aside, to use others as ladders and then throw them. It is politics... because a pope is a political head. Religion is secondary, or nothing at all. How can a religious man fight and be aggressive for a post? They are only politicians. Saint Francis came to see the pope, and the pope thought this man was a fool. But trees and birds and fishes thought in a different way. When Saint Francis went to the river the fishes would jump in celebration that Francis had come. Thousands witnessed this phenomenon--millions of fishes would jump simultaneously; the whole river would be lost in jumping fishes. Saint Francis had come and the fishes were happy. And wherever he would go birds would follow; they would come and sit on his leg, on his body, in his lap. They understood this fool better than the pope. Even trees that had become dry and were going to die would become green and blossom again if Saint Francis came near. These trees understood well that this fool was no ordinary fool--he was God's fool. > >elf peeped fru the window screen and grinned. Are you comin to the party >as >well as me? I are goin I are goin there.. which is really just over >here... > > > > > > > Hu are doon the whistles. I can do them,I can do them vry loud indeed. > >elf pursed up her lips and sticked her tongue just on the right spots.. >and > >out comed a whistle that was very long and very shrill and very loud. >Hmmm > >elf wriggled her ears and dood another one.. that was a size 51. that >was.. > >Hmm concepts are jokes. now thats a food for a think.. that means i don't > >had to get all my larfs wiv the bees then. > >Hmmm > >anyways I are off to a party soon got to put on my blue spark shoes and >get > >dressed up into my Goddess of illusion clobbers. Mmmm > > Leo King <leo_king111 wrote: > >Don't forget to love yourself and laugh at yourself. > > > >In the midst of the most terrible, wrenching, insidious > >thing inside you, laugh. That's the time you need it the > >most. You have to get something to counterbalance the > >tremendous terrible thing, and laughter starts to bring it > >out so it can balance out. > > > >If you don't feel like laughing, that's the time to laugh. > >If you've been practicing it, you can get it going>- > > > >ondemn none: > > > >if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. > > > >If you cannot, > > > >fold your hands, > > > >bless your brothers, > > > >and let them go > > > >their own way > > >====================================================== > > > > > > A fair enough what-Dan-would-call concept-per-se. > > >(and I totally agree with him) > > > However, as I love to stress, not to lose perspective > > >, a concept nevertheless and hence a joke. > > > > > > > > >Anand. > > > > > > > > > >______________________ > > >Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now > > > at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html > > > > > >_______________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 Beautiful one,that. Thanks Anand >The crazy wisdom of Francis of Assisi The heart has its own reasons, which the mind cannot understand. The heart has its own dimension of being, which is completely dark for the mind. The heart is higher and deeper than the mind, beyond the reach of it. It looks foolish. Love always looks foolish because love is not utilitarian. Mind is utilitarian. It uses everything for something else-- that is the meaning of being utilitarian. Mind is purposive, end-oriented; it turns everything into a means--and love cannot be turned into a means, that is the problem. Love in itself is the goal. Fools always have a subtle wisdom in them, and the wise always act like fools. In the old days all great emperors always had one fool in their court. They had many wise men, counselors, ministers and prime ministers, but always one fool. Why?--because there are things so-called wise men will not be able to understand, that only a foolish man can understand--because the so-called wise are so foolish that their cunningness and cleverness closes their minds. A fool is simple, and was needed because many times the so-called wise would not say something because they were afraid of the emperor. A fool is not afraid of anybody else, he will speak whatsoever the consequences. This is how fools act--simply, without thinking what the result will be. A clever man always thinks first of the result, then he acts. Thought comes first, then action. A foolish man acts; thought never comes first. Whenever someone realizes the ultimate, he is not like your wise men. He cannot be. He may be like your fools, but he cannot be like your wise men. When Saint Francis became enlightened he used to call himself " God's fool. " The pope was a wise man, and when Saint Francis went to see him even the pope thought this man had gone mad. He was intelligent, calculating, clever; otherwise how could he be a pope? To become a pope one has to pass through much politics. To become a pope diplomacy is needed, a competitive aggression is needed to put others aside, to use others as ladders and then throw them. It is politics... because a pope is a political head. Religion is secondary, or nothing at all. How can a religious man fight and be aggressive for a post? They are only politicians. Saint Francis came to see the pope, and the pope thought this man was a fool. But trees and birds and fishes thought in a different way. When Saint Francis went to the river the fishes would jump in celebration that Francis had come. Thousands witnessed this phenomenon--millions of fishes would jump simultaneously; the whole river would be lost in jumping fishes. Saint Francis had come and the fishes were happy. And wherever he would go birds would follow; they would come and sit on his leg, on his body, in his lap. They understood this fool better than the pope. Even trees that had become dry and were going to die would become green and blossom again if Saint Francis came near. These trees understood well that this fool was no ordinary fool--he was God's fool. ______________________ Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now at: http://in.autos./cricket/tracker.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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