You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Interpretation
Understanding lifeβs complexities requires experience and introspection.
This quote suggests that the questions we face in life often provide the key to understanding ourselves and the world around us. Until we encounter specific situations that challenge us or provoke thought, we remain unaware of the deeper truths and answers that lie within our experiences and thoughts.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion about existence and purpose.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
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