deeeyevester:

If a doctor told you, that you had a rare disease, and said you could die at any time without any warning… What would you change? Immediatly your human brain either says to live it up, or to fix everything with everyone before your gone. Make peace with your enemies, tell your crush the truth,…

Knowledge is knowing that you cannot know. The truth and irony of this statement just kills me… there’s so many things that I want to know, the only way to be at peace is acceptance.  Accept the fact that you cannot know.

A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for forty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there that the wise man lived. Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went, people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there was a table covered with platters of the most delicious food in that part of the world. The wise man conversed with everyone, and the boy had to wait two hours before it was his turn to be given the man’s attention. The wise man listened attentively to the boy’s explanation of why he had come, but told him that he didn’t have time to explain the secret of happiness. He suggested that the by look around the palace and return in two hours.

“Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,” said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. “As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.”

The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was.

“Well,” asked the wise man, “did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master gardener ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”

The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.

“Then go back and observe the marvels of my world,” said the wise man. “you cannot trust a man if you don’t know his home.”

Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of the flowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. Upon returning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.

“But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?” asked the wise man

Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw tha the oil was gone.

“Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,” said the wisest of wise men. “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

That captured moment where you come to a halt and begin to appreciate.

& breathe in all those little details you would have missed if you had just passed by.

How do YOU define beauty? Or does social media do that for you? Societal expectations have you blinded by tricking you into the desire of catching up with the latest fashions, the do’s and dont’s and so on.. Do YOU still withhold that ability to think for yourself?

the pursuit of knowledge is a nobel task.

Have you heard the true story - and aren’t they all supposed to be true? - of the philosophy professor who walked into class to give the final exam? He went to the blackboard and wrote on it one word: Why?

He knew that one of our most human traits is a desire to make sense of things by asking why? If something good happens, we naturally want to know why, so we can repeat it. If something bad happens, we want to know why, so in future we can avoid it. On news reports of earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, floods, accidents and crimes, victims are always shaking their heads and asking why?

In the financial world, investors bite their nails guessing what makes stocks go up or down. Will a growing economy push stocks up? Or will it cause inflation, which will cause us to stop buying things we can’t afford, which in turn will reduce the profits of companies and cause stocks to fall? Will a controversial election send stocks crashing? Or will it just clear the air of uncertainty, making stocks soar? Will a devastating earthquake harm the economy and the stock market? Or will the cleanup just create employment, sending the stocks up? Using the same data, hundreds of experts reason that stocks will rise, while hundreds of others reason that they will fall. Do the experts, or do we, think cause and effect logic is easy? Yet it is important. We use it in everyday life.

Just because one event follows another, don’t assume the first causes the second. If a black cat crosses the road just before your car blows up, put the blame where it belongs: not on the cat but on the mechanic who forgot to replace your crankcase oil.

Control your prejudices. If the bank manager refuses to give you a loan, is it because bankers are capitalist exploiters who like to keep the rest of us down? Or is it because this one had to call the collection agency the last time you took out a loan?

Explore causes behind causes. Your employer fired you because you didn’t work hard enough. But why didn’t you work hard enough? Because the job was a bore and the employer was a jerk? Or because you have two other jobs as well, and sleep only three hours a night? And if so, do you work these hours because the car you bought consumes every cent you earn? Finally, the real question may be why did you buy the car?