No Dak Boy's Wisdom Page

Action is the anidote to despair.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren’t always two sides. Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through someone else's eyes.

It takes solitude, under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Ah, my dear Voltaire, doubt is an acquired and cultivated taste, like Laphroaig Whisky or fine truffles, and quite as exquisite. --in response to Voltaire's comment: "Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.