For all that has been, thank you. For all that is to come, yes!
—Dag Hammarskjöld
Tip 10: Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay—
Stay till the good old year,
So long companion of our way,
Shakes hands, and leaves us here.
Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away.The year, whose hopes were high and strong,
Has now no hopes to wake; Yet one hour more of jest and song For his familiar sake.
Oh stay, oh stay, One mirthful hour, and then away.
The kindly year, his liberal hands
Have lavished all his store. And shall we turn from where he stands, Because he gives no more?
Oh stay, oh stay,
One grateful hour, and then away.
William Cullen Bryant
Tip 9: Discard the Program when you feel like it–but go back to it the next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
Let us live in joy, not hating those who hate us.
Among those who hate us, we live free of hate.
Let us live in joy,
free from disease among those who are diseased.
Among those who are diseased, let us live free of disease.
Let us live in joy, free from greed among the greedy.
Among those who are greedy, we live free of greed.
Let us live in joy, though we possess nothing.
Let us live feeding on joy, like the bright gods.
Buddha
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Tip 8: Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
I think a while of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
Tween heaven and earth.
I only know it is, not how or why,
My greatest happiness;
However hard I try,
Not if I were to die,
Can I explain.
I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
And so I’m dumb.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
But only thinks and does;
Though surely out ’twill leak
Without the help of Greek,
Or any tongue.
A man may love the truth and practise it,
Beauty he may admire,
And goodness not omit,
As much as may befit
To reverence.
But only when these three together meet,
As they always incline,
And make one soul the seat,
And favorite retreat,
Of loveliness;
When under kindred shape, like loves and hates
And a kindred nature,
Proclaim us to be mates,
Exposed to equal fates
Eternally;
And each may other help, and service do,
Drawing Love’s bands more tight,
Service he ne’er shall rue
While one and one make two,
And two are one;
In such case only doth man fully prove
Fully as man can do,
What power there is in Love
His inmost soul to move
Resistlessly.
by Khalil Gibran
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend
Tip 7: Keep human! See people; go places, drink if you feel like it.
