Quote of the Day

"Knowledge is like a candle, even as it lights another candle the strength of the original flame is not diminished" -Thomas Jeffereson-

Life is like our flame, with our flame we carry all of our prejudices, all of our knowledge and experiences. It is commonplace for people to share the light, and each flame burns brighter with the more experiences you feed into it.

Intellectuals and academics ritualize the process of increasing the intensity of their respective flames, and it grows and withers depending on how your flame is cared. We may find ourselves in a mental standstill in our lives, but it is instinctive to satisfy the hunger of our flames.

You may very well share your flame, but not everyone is so lucky. It seems that though some may be burning very brightly, like a beacon, there will always be the places of darkness. Some people don’t even realize their flame until it is only embers, in fact.

Even more necessary is that you must continue the burn. For when you part from this grave and wondrous reality, your flame extinguishes – only to leave embers behind. Many great philosophers and thinkers of our peoples still have the embers slowly burning, and others keep burning strong through the words and discoveries of those long deceased. It is the nature of humanity.

You may do what you wish with your flame, but it is far more noble to continue the flame. You may seek your own personal truths, but humanity will always be waiting for its savior to cleanse itself with the fire. We have some serious undergrowth that needs to be purged. I fear the light grows dimmer with every day’s passing.

Of Rock, Pebbles and Sand Philosophy.

A philosophy professor stood before the class one day, when the class began, wordlessly the lecturer took out an empty jar and proceeded to fill up the jar with 2" in diameter rocks into it. He then asked the students, if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

Then the professor picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He then shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the student again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was.

The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, as you have guessed it, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now" said the professor. "I want you to realize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things- God, your passion, your family, your health, your true friends - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

Whereas the pebbles are the other things in life that matter but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent your job, work and home. Lastly the sand is everything else. The small stuff and the material possession; jewellery, your car, your investments.

The same can be applied to your lives. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are truly important. Pay attention to the things in life that are critical to your happiness and well-being; for instance put more attention to your family, play with your children, get a medical check-up, exercise.; take care of the rock first- the thing that really matters. Set your priorities right and the rest is just sand.

On top of this,

Upon explaining the items mentioned, the professor took out a bottle of beer and pour it into the jar and of course the beer filled the remaining space within the jar making the jar truly full. On a lighter note, there is always a room for beer no matter how full your life is.

A Pencil Is Mightier Than A Sword

A boy was watching his grandmother writing a letter. At one point, he asked, “Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?”His grandmother stopped writing the letter and said to her grandson:“I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil i’m using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up”. Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special. “But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!”

“That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities, which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand of God, and He always guides us according to his will.

Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he is much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

Forth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action”.