We too can offer something to you: our experience and knowledge that has come from it. The specific experience I am talking about has given me one certainty: consciousness preceded being and not the other way around, as the Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility.
As always in fact, the living incarnation of compassion seems never to have lost his hold on humanity. “Sometimes,’ he admits, “I wonder whether my efforts really have any effect; I sometimes feel that unless there is a bigger movement, the bigger issues will not change. But how to start this bigger movement? Originally, it must come from individual initiative.”
“Self discipline is remembering what you really want.” (Source – Flylady email stream)
When I was at school (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) our small, fierce and lovely matric English teacher (complete with Scottish accent) drilled this into us: you never write “try and” – you write “try to”.
But: such a little word, such a lot of confusion. You can go mad looking at grammar rules to find out when the use of But is appropriate – although it seems that a lot of people are not aware they need to think about it at all.
Joy does not come from what you do; if flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. Eckhart Tolle
