Got your bucket list in front of you....

.....or in the forefront of your mind?  We think we want so many things. We create those lists full of hope, dreams, desires and details. Yet, actually, we don't want anywhere near as much as we think we want. When it really comes down to it, we all of us only ever want one thing. Wisdom.

 

 

 

When we have that, we have everything else we require or, at least, we have the way to it... Which amounts to the same thing.







 

Everyone can be great – because anyone can serve.      (Martin Luther King Jr)

Do you remember organ grinders....

....with their little monkeys on top of the organ?  I very much doubt it.  But think about them for a moment - If an organ grinder is playing a tuneless melody, what's the point in drawing this to the attention of the little monkey who is dancing on the top of the musical instrument? It is, of course, to be hoped that there is no little monkey.

 

 

Gone are the days when street entertainers felt free to abuse animals by having them perform for the public. But then, think about how this barbaric and abusive practice, in itself, got stamped out. The authorities complained to the organ grinders, not the monkeys.

 

It always helps to talk to the right person.

 

 

 

 

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.   (Heinrich Heine)

 

 

 

 

 

People are not....

....always reasonable. Sometimes, they don't realise when they are being unreasonable. Their actions, to them, seem perfectly reasonable! When you try to tell them that they don't seem very reasonable to you, they think that you are the one who is being unreasonable.

 

 

You may have many reasons to do something, and those reasons may make plenty of sense, but it still doesn't mean they are the right reasons.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain.  That is the only reason why they starve.   (Lao Tzu)