Conference of the birds

The journey of the birds takes them through the seven valleys of the quest, love, understanding, independence and detachment, unity, astonishment, poverty and nothingness.

In the valley of the quest they undergoes a hundred difficulties and trials.After they has been tested and become free, they learns in the valley of love that love has nothing to do with reason.

The valley of understanding teaches them that knowledge is temporary, but understanding endures. Overcoming faults and weaknesses brings the seeker closer to the goal.

In the valley of independence and detachment they have no desire to possess nor any wish to discover. To cross this difficult valley they must be roused from apathy to renounce inner and outer attachments so that they can become self-sufficient.

In the valley of unity the Hoopoe announces that although they may see many beings, in reality there is only one, which is complete in its unity. As long as they are separate, good and evil will arise; but when they lose themself in the divine essence, they will be transcended by love. When unity is achieved, they forgets all and forgets themself in the valley of astonishment and bewilderment.

Getting our own approval

We can secure other people's approval if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Mark Twain

Sail away

Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

What do we really know?

What do we really know? Could it be that maybe what we think we know too much of is not really knowing, a lot of it could just be our guess works.

A lot of our preconceived notions come out of ignorance, and our ignorance shapes the way we think. Thus it is important that we try to clear away as many as possible what we thought we know.

We don't know that what we know is what we don't know.

Spirit of Learning

No knowledge is acquired on our own. It is always learned from others or taught to us. Our ideas and thoughts are the result of tremendous amount of learning.Thus people who produce good ideas and wisdom are those who are good at learning.

When we are a good learner, everything around us teaches us. There is alway some thing to learn from everything and anything. Valuable insights and experiences are reflected in all things.

We have to be ready and willing to learn and be inspired from any thing and any one, only than can we learn something new or come up with good ideas.

Konosuke Matsushita

Duty to Teach

We human are amazing, we do things no other living creatures can. We invent things and think about new ideas.

But we have to be taught by others, for even the most wise of us was once and unknowing and innocent child who learn from others with prior experiences.

Thus teaching is an important obligation of those before us and by us for those who come after us. Without proper guidance nothing new wil be born.

Konosuke matsushita

Do it

In order to get any job done quickly and efficiently, you don't have to do the job perfectly.

Just do it.

Sharp Knife

A sharp knife is not inherently good or bad. It is just a tool.It can be good or bad depending on how it is used. The important thing is how to use it.

It ain't what you do...

Things may come, and things may go
But this is one thing you ought to know

It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
It ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
It ain't what you do it's the place that you do it
That's what gets results

Remember if you're tryin' too hard It don't mean a thing
Take it easy

It ain't what you bring it's the way that you bring it
It ain't what you swing it's the way that you swing it
It ain't what you sing it's the way that you sing it
That's what gets results

Matrix

Neo: I thought it wasn't real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real

Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

Agent Brown: Perhaps you are asking the wrong questions.

Parable of the mustard seed

Jesus put a parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and become a tree, so that birds come and make nests in its branches."

Grieving

Gautama Buddha told the story of the grieving mother and the mustard seed.
When a mother loses her only son, she takes his body to the Buddha to find a cure.

The Buddha asks her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from families that have never lost a child, husband, parent or friend.

Who Moved My Cheese

Change Happens
They Keep Moving The Cheese
Anticipate Change
Get Ready For The Cheese To Move
Monitor Change
Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
Adapt To Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese
Change
Move With The Cheese
Enjoy Change!
Savor The Adventure And Enjoy The Taste Of New Cheese!
Be Ready To Change Quickly And Enjoy It Again & Again
They Keep Moving The Cheese.

Spencer Johnson

Between two drunken man

A drunk teaches "We see faults because we do not love. When we understand real love, the faults of those near us appear as good qualities".

The other drunk agree "When you see the ugliness of your own faults, you will not bother so much with the faults of others".

Mystical search

Strive to discover the mystery before life is taken from you.If while living you fail to find yourself, to know yourself,how will you be able to understand the secret of your existence when you die?

(Mencari yang tiada)

Duck Test

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

I know it when I see it.

Rashomon effect

The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime is witnessed by four individuals. Each then described the crime with absolute honesty but in four mutually contradictory ways.

Anne Schaef

There can be two or more answers to the same question, and all can be right.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it.

Tutte le strade portano a Roma

There are many different ways to arrive somewhere or achieve something.

All roads lead to Rome.

Assumption Believed As Truth

Our minds need logical explanations to events. One of our most basic needs is the need to have answers and the need for reasons and explanations. Absent those needs, our minds switch to a fear-based mode where we have to satisfy our need for answers with that of assumption. Assumption is a derivative of fear because we always assume the worst based on our fears and insecurities. Assumption therefore fulfills our need for a logical explanation for the unexplainable event and we tend to become locked into that assumption, believing it as truth.

When fear step in...

When there are no communication or miscommunication, fear step in. Because people always fear the worst outcome. The mind will fill in the missing information with their own creative insight, which is often fear-based. Our minds will always think of the worst possible outcomes based on our fears and insecurities.

Nothing is as it appears.

Know all things to be like this:
As the moon in a bright sky
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

Know all things to be like this
A mirage, an illusion
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Samadhi Raja Sutra

Śūnyatā

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concept of emptiness

Silence is Golden

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right
place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool
when he speaks. - Thomas Fuller

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.

They always talk who never think – Matthew Prior

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear
more and speak less. - Diogenes Laertius

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Who gossips to you will gossip of you.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato

You don't have to explain something you never said. - Calvin Coolidge

Silence is Golden

One doesn't speak unless he is sure he can improve on the silence.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. - Dean Rusk

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce

The less you talk, the more you are listened to. - Abigail van Buren

The more a man talks the less his words are worth.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton

Think twice before you speak, especially if you intend to say what you think.

Too often do people who want to offer sound advice offer more sound
than advice.- Alfred E. Neuman

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said rather than
all that could be said.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that
correspond with them.- Abigail Adams

Silence is Golden

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom
to listen.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong,and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right. - Jim Fiebig

It's a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet because you never know when you'll have to eat them. - Alfred E. Neuman

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysius the Elder

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he
has to eat them.- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr

Never let your tongue cut your own throat. - Chinese Proverb

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough.

Silence is golden

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain

After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read. - Tony Alessandra

Be careful of your thoughts ... they may become words at any moment.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield

Better to let 'em wonder why you didn't talk than why you did.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. - Charlie Kaufman

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

Extract from addimoore.com

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Don't misintrepret

Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.
Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it.
Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated? Come here first!
Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.
Illiterate? Write today for help.

Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern has been exposing himself to the people of the United States.

Extract from internet

Miscommunication

Three types of miscommunication are misunderstanding, non-understanding and misinterpretation.

Misunderstanding is when one party gain an interpretation that they believes is accurate but in reality is not the interpretation intended by the other party.

Non-understanding is when one party does not gain any interpretation at all or gains more than one interpretation with no way to choose between them.

Misinterpretation is when the interpretation of one party statement suggests that their values and beliefs are different from the other party values and beliefs.

Extract from University of Pittsburgh

Communication

To effectively communicate...we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world...and...use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins