Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for October 02, 2023
September 25, 2023
October 09, 2023
Transcript:
I discovered once more at Tipasa that one must keep intact in oneself a freshness, a cool well-spring of joy, love the day that escapes injustice, and return to combat having won that light. Here I recaptured the old beauty, a young sky… …and I measured my luck…. …realizing at last… …that in the worst years of our madness… …the memory of that sky never left me. This was what in the end had kept me from despairing. There the world began over again every day in an every new light. O LIGHT! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too… …and I knew it now. In the middle of winter… …I at last discovered that there was in me… …and invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Yakety Sax about 1 year ago
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”—Albert Camus
Bruce1253 about 1 year ago
My favorite quote on the human condition
“I seem to be a verb.” – Buckminster Fuller
My take on that is that life is a process and that I am involved in the process of becoming human. It may take me many lifetimes but I hope my current version is better than what came before.
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 1 year ago
Live!
It’s better than the alternative.
mpolo11 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Disappointing. I thought they would get back together after learning more about themselves. That is what my partner and I are attempting right now.
donut reply about 1 year ago
…and then comes fall