Wisdom For The Day

[Tiny Allotment]

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

Because if you wait until you can do the job well you will never get it done. Jump in, make mistakes and learn from those mistakes.

I have always tried to live by this and it has always stood me in good stead.

Similar saying are "Show me a perfectionist and I will show you someone who never gets anything done." and "You can't edit a blank page."

Paul

[Knight of Albion]

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Gustav Jung

[Knight of Albion]

The Simple Path:
Silence is prayer
Prayer is faith
Faith is love
Love is service
The fruit of service is peace
- Mother Teresa

[Knight of Albion]

The heart that gives, gathers
- Marianne Moore

[Knight of Albion]

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own
- Benjamin Disraeli

[Knight of Albion]

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it
- Winston Churchill

[Starling]

From the Dhammapada:

Creatures from mind their character derive;
mind-marshalled are they, mind made.
Mind is the source either of bliss or of corruption. [2]

By oneself evil is done; by oneself one suffers;
by oneself evil is left undone; by oneself one is purified.
Purity and impurity belong to oneself,
no one can purify another. [3]

You yourself must make an effort.
The Tathagatas are only preachers.
The thoughtful who enter the way
are freed from the bondage of Mara. [4]

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise;
who, though young and strong, is full of sloth;
whose will and thoughts are weak;
that lazy and idle man
will never find the way to enlightenment. [5]


If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully;
the truth guards him who guards himself. [6]

If a man makes himself as he teaches others to be,
then, being himself subdued, he may subdue others;
one's own self is indeed difficult to subdue. [7]

If some men conquer in battle
a thousand times a thousand men,
and if another conquer himself,
he is the greatest of conquerors. [8]

It is the habit of fools,
be they laymen or members of the clergy, to think,
"this is done by me. May others be subject to me.
In this or that transaction a prominent part should be played by me."
Fools do not care for the duty to be performed or the aim to be reached,
but think of their self alone.
Everything is but a pedestal of their vanity. [9]

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do;
what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult. [10]

If anything is to be done, let a man do it,
let him attack it vigorously! [11]

Before long, alas! this body will lie on the earth,
despised, without understanding, like a useless log;
yet our thoughts will endure.
They will be thought again, and will produce action.
Good thoughts will produce good actions,
and bad thoughts will produce bad actions. [12]

Earnestness is the path of immortality,
thoughtlessness the path of death.
Those who are in earnest do not die;
those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.

[Knight of Albion]

Let us see what love can do
- William Penn

[Knight of Albion]

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Knight of Albion]

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back.
What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
Remember, life is an echo. It always gets back to you. So give goodness.
- Unknown

[Knight of Albion]

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
The best way to understand people is to listen to them
- Ralph Nichols

[Knight of Albion]

Come to the edge
'We might fall'
Come to the edge
'It's too high'
Come to the edge!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew
- Christopher Logue

[Knight of Albion]

Our patience will achieve more than our force
- Edmund Burke

[Knight of Albion]

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There is no greater investment.
- Stephen R. Covey

[Knight of Albion]

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost
- J.R.R. Tolkein