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Seed A seed is planted In the plowed furrows of the heart. A tulip, a wildflower, a carrot, who knows. Reddish soil, well-watered – Add sunlight and hope. But hail falls, covering The perfect furrow. Maybe the hope has failed. Maybe the chill killed the plant Just after germination. In any case, the furrow Is empty, barren, As spring continues. Will it germinate? Will soil well-prepared And a seed of desire and love Sprout a flower or a vegetable? If the wishes of the heart Could affect that seed, The plant would grow overnight, A beanstalk to scrape the dome of the sky. But the reality is, Probably, That the wh

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"Dare to be wise." There is another saying, parallel to this one – that when ignorance is bliss, t'is folly to be wise. Wisdom does not automatically connote happiness; the wisest of men are not always the happiest of men. What man would not choose to be happy, given the choice? Or choose happiness for himself and his family over the family of another? Yet, sometimes, that is what wisdom calls us to do. It is telling that the Mirror of Erised shows the happiest man in the world exactly as he is – the man who is content with what he has, not the man who has much, the man who knows and loves himself, not the man who is the wiser and m

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"Courage is the ability to do what everyone else is afraid to do." Fear is overcome by courage. Courage is made all the greater by fear, however; courage acts best when one is afraid for those who love you, rather than afraid of those who hate you. There is a great difference in the fear of people and in the fear for people – the former indicates cowardice, the latter love. Since I believe love to be the greatest force on earth, fear for others – courage – is a great thing. Had the World of Harry Potter been more than fantasy, and I more than a Muggle, I would have been a Gryffindor – and, being a Gryffindor, I'm somewhat

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"A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis." The hero is made through his trials. These trials are all-important in the Hero Journey, for they determine how the hero develops. Some heroes survive the trials, and be what they are meant to be – Harry Potter, for example. Harry fulfills his Quest, to defeat Voldemort, and along his seven-year journey, he grows from an wise, innocent boy to a strong, wise man. Yes, I meant that – innocence and maturity alike have wisdom. Innocence sees everything as One, where maturity does not; however, it also cannot see that the pain of the One is anything to be concerned ab

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"A closed mouth gathers no feet." A person should speak only when there is something to say, not to fill a silence or because he feels he must speak for the sake of his own ego. The word is the most important thing in this equation, and after it the one being spoken to, and only after that the speaker. A word is not always spoken appropriately – or, rather, not always spoken at the right place, or at the right time, or to the right person. The who, the what, the when, the how, and the why all matter in human communication – who you speak to, what you say, when you say it, how you say it, and why you speak at all. If you have nothin

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"A closed mind is a good thing to lose." But then, what is a closed mind? One that resists change. The closed-minded cannot change in their opinions or in their habits, no matter the pressure in their environment to change. Sometimes, that is a good thing – if one is faced with an evil far greater than oneself, and one must choose between what is right and what is easy. There is a very fine line between a negative hard-headedness and a positive stubbornness. Maybe the difference lies in the way it manifests – hard-headedness against change, stubbornness holding to the old ways. It’s a fine line, yet it makes all the difference

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"A great mind does not know the answers. A great mind asks the questions." Anyone can memorize something. It takes a greater mind to take that raw information and draw inferences from it, and then find that information’s place in their own lives. I think that learning to ask the right questions at the right times is a greater part of learning a way of wisdom than memorizing what everyone else thought about something. There is more to wisdom than education, more to experience than ignorance. Wondering why a philosopher said something in a particular way can often be just as illuminating as the words they said in the first place.

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Aug 17, 2013

Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Who Wins

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This is a basic paradox of language and behavior (see the Wikipedia article on the "irresistible force paradox"). If a force (say G-d's) is unstoppable, what happens when it meets an immovable object (say, the laws of physics)? In this, I think the solution to the paradox lies with the addition of another line of information: How easily can each party triumph over the other? And the paradox, thus, has two answers. IF it is easier for the unstoppable force to triumph over the immovable object, then the force wins. IF it is easier for the immovable object to triumph over the unstoppable force, then the object wins. Perhaps I ought to explain mo