Copyright (C) 2002 by L.M. Wong
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PoPHILO
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POPULAR PHILOSOPHY
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1.Better to be a willing servant to our mind than an unwilling slave to atyrant?s will.
2.The physical self and mind as willing servants to a worthy cause is a formof devotion. The physical self and mind as unwilling slaves to a despisedcause is physical and spiritual violation.
3.Controlled freedom is externally induced refrain, discretion andresponsibility .It is only when we are given the sovereignty of freewill do werealise our susceptibility and vulnerability.
4.If a soothsayer predicts negative events in our lives, use freewill to avoidthem. If a soothsayer predicts positive events in our lives ,use freewill tofulfil them.
5.We should all generate our own knowledge not just absorb all that we havelearned. In order to attain our full intellectual potential ,we need both thescholar and innovator in us.
6.When at last we realise how much we?ve lost when things have passed, wehave grasped both wisdom and folly.
7.A pessimist is plagued by dark vision. An optimist is embraced by clearhope .A practical realist has both dark vision and clear hope .
8.Sweeping statements are uninsured ventures offering high risks ofswallowing our words and pride.
9.The course of one?s life is like a quest for a masterpiece. It hinges on justthe right intensity and apt strokes.
10.The best we thought we were at earlier times are sometimes not as good asthe best stage we are at now. Being at one?s best depends on the time scale itis judged on. We peak differently at different times. All our peak points arethe summits of their own time.
11.A mortal fact here : Those who live within the century they were born inand never get to see the next or those fortunate enough to see the next.
12.Clichs that we cannot do without are not clichs but language essentials.
13.Anxiety to the mind is akin to a fractured leg to the body.
14.To maintain constant levels of alertness, for the prolific mind ; reposewhile for the sedentary mind ; stimulation.
15.Moderate amounts of guidelines in convention and etiquette ensures thatcivilization behaves in civil fashion. Excessive amounts of convention andetiquette converts life into ritualistic enslavement of thought and action.
16.If you don?t know nothing you know something.
17.One insists because of truth. One insists because of prejudice.
18.Experience is when something becomes easier, more predictable with lesssurprises with our ability to discern those worth cherishing and thoseonly worth during their fleeting hour.
19.Innovation may spell the demise of erstwhile techniques which wereinnovations of yesteryears or just muffle them. The possibility of revamps,revivals cannot be overruled entirely be they in similar, related or differentfields of interest. Nostalgia has its charms.
20.In order to be profound in thoughts the mind must be liberated from thei