Jedian Aphorisms 2
Death brings an end to dissapointments and frustrations; but to go one living nurtures these such things we all so dread.
There is of course much pain in being disappointed but there’s also always a little in being satisfied; for we know that there is always an end to disappointment but none to satisfaction. As long as we live we always ask, ‘ when will so be i content?’ When? When?
The greater sense of peace is preserved only by he who strives to preserve it, albeit only mentally. For the mind is the only thing we can control. Consequently, if someone couldnt even manage his own mind, then there can never be peace for him, and when there is not even mental peace, there can only be eternally recurring doom.
Machiavelli said that fortresses should be avoided because they will isolate and trap you. But what is God Himself is your fortress?
A real prostitute always says, ‘let’s keep on going’ when the fake ones have already said, ‘ i no longer can’t’.
She who knows not how to kiss is a bad ice-cream eater.
There is no such thing as the real self apart from the self that we display most of the time. That which we do not display is the part of the self that we are ashamed of and that which we so despise.
