Month: November 2011

Quote of the Day – November 2 2011

“When nothing is for sure we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit 

is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.”

 

 

    –Carlos Casteneda

I’ve been thinking about wisdom and how to define it. Self-knowledge seems to be a large component of wisdom. The more I know myself, the more I understand the universe. Do I become wiser as I understand the universe better? As I add to my experiences, I can better help others when they ask for advice or knowledge. Tho I find that if I truly need to know something, all I really need to do is look within and ask and usually I get an answer if I remain patient.. But still, it seems that wisdom has to mean more than just experience. I have met many who have had all varieties of experience whom I would not call wise. Likewise I have met many, who have had relatively sheltered lives yet within them seems to lie the wisdom of the universe. It seems to include understanding, patience so many things. Perhaps I many never be wise. That would be ok, I have the wisdom of others who have touched my life and that gives me (and others thru me?) both comfort and new avenues to explore. I may never be able to point to myself or have others point to me and say “He is wise”  but that’s ok, I still have much ignorance to dispel

    — G A Rosenberg

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Rescue Mission by G A Rosenberg

Psychedelic Forest by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 1 2011

“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.”
–Alfred Korzybski

If I was to take Dr Korzybski at his word in this, then I would see that we can never say what something is or describe it fully. The most we can do would be to describe what it looks like or how it feels. That means that everything when described by words becomes reduced to metaphor. That explains so much. After all as I continue to find more and more, that something may be as it has been described to me but almost always it contains so much more. This applies in so many ways particularly when it comes to people. Whenever someone’s characteristics have been described to me, I always find myself saying, “yes but they contain so much more than that.” It becomes to easy to limit others with a few words of choice description. As a matter of fact quite often politicians rely on this fact.
— G A Rosenberg

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Bouquet by G A Rosenberg

Random Ducked by G A Rosenberg