by mavie 4 Replies latest jw friends
I saw a Chinese proverb yesterday that stuck me:
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
Being relatively young and inexperienced, I'm asking for your opinion about this great adventure we call life. This is your opportunity to discharge all that life experience! Let's hear it!
You might want to take a look at avidBiblereader's Topic. Here's the link:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/127743/1.ashx
Juni
My biggest thing that took me a long time to realise is to have no regrets and to take whatever opportunity you can.(Within reason)
Helen
wise words that i dont know who to credit it to but it makes you think...
" the only people that will ask you to have faith are con men and preachers"
hey mavie! that was a cool proverb.
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
i thought about it a bit, and i feel that there may be two ways of looking at it.
one is in the sense of asking those who have already been over the terrain for advice. sage indeed!
second is in the sense of immediate perception without having to ask anyone anything. what i mean, is if you are on a journey, and you see people coming back along the road, then perhaps you are on the wrong road! i would prefer to be on a road where all continue going forward. but i may be wrong about that last one because sometimes you may see people abandoning a certain path because it was only a fad for them, but it may be right on for you. so perhaps asking people on the road is the wrong place to ask. perhaps you already know the answer! but maybe i need to put the reefer away for a few minutes.
but anyways, i am not older than you, and you seem like a totally smart dude, so i don't know if i have much advice. i have made lots of poor choices in my life. but i'll share something that is close to my heart:
women love diamonds.
HA! just kidding. well, i am sure most do, but that was not my thought. okay, here it is:
evolution: if you do not believe in evolution, you're never really going to evolve.
peace: if you want planetary peace, you must become peace, individually, regardless of what others are becoming around you. outer peace comes from inner peace.
sentience: you might be sentient, you might not be. being able to read does not denote sentience. sentience comes from peace with your natural history, and comes from a place outside of egoic mind. a sentient person is a consciously awakened person. no one does this for you.
love: is all you need. it's last in the list for a reason, actually.
i might expand that into a thread someday.
oh, and don't listen to people when they shoot down psychedelic drugs. they don't know what they are talking about.
peace!
tetra
