On The Wings of Hope : Prose

It's possible to wake up with arrival of autumn when from a last leaf falls from withering tree.

Every awakened one has its own path.

30.09.2010

Book of the Ways

There is no river without a source. The river, flowing through desert, is doomed to wither. The river without inflows can become a stream. The great rivers feed the seas.

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Being useless for others, you are doomed to loneliness. Being useful to yourself you will once again find the whole new world of friends.

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The happiness comes without achievements. The joy comes without prayers. The grass grows by itself. The true believe is not fanaticism.

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Thousands of ways lead away and only one – to yourself. But to find one, you will have to pass through thousands.

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The one chosen better way will reach destination faster than those chosen the worst. Yet both will once come to the same point.

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Each beginning becomes the end, and each end becomes the new beginning. The question on existence of the beginning of the beginnings remains opened.

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The past was the present. The future becomes the present. Only present always remains itself.

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What was absurd yesterday, today became the nature law. Laws change - the nature remains the same.

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Water sharpens a stone, making it’s smooth. Water washes stone coast, making its soft. Life will teach everyone, capable of learning.

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You will create hatred, harming. You will create hatred, aiding. The love of others grows in your ability to aid yourself.

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Trying to become better, you may not make it. Wishing to know more, you may not learn it. The true comprehension happens suddenly.

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It is possible to come, having overcome all obstacles. It is possible to reach only by not considering them as those.

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The joyful will not notice obstacles. The sad will exaggerate them. Only calm clearly sees all his path.

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Time changes countries. Time changes worlds. Time changes Universes. Are their changes relative if the time itself is relative ?

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Life can destroy your achievements. Life can uplift you. Only those passed the first and the second can learn calmness.

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You cannot run faster than yourself. You cannot run slower than yourself. Everyone travels with its own speed.

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It is easy to evade from fight. It is difficult to avoid it. The true warrior wins without battling.

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Life demands movement. Life never stops. The one stopped voluntary shortens his own.

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It is impossible to remember what was thousand years ago. It is impossible to know what will be  thousand years afterwards. Only the present matters.

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When the peace reigns around – observe. When war storms rage nearby – observe. Only the one who saw both war and peace can learn temporariness of both. Only the one who saw both grief and happiness can learn the value of calmness.

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The one blinded by happiness may not see the danger. The one blinded by anger punished himself for errors of another. Only the free is capable to find a right combination of the first and the second.

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Failure gives rise to grief. Achievement of goal produces boredom. Only by refusing petty goals it’s possible to feel fullness of life.

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One can disbelieve in paradise – and still live in it. One can deny hell – and still live in it. The true hell and paradise is a hell and paradise of the present.

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It’s possible to trust something – and know nothing about it. It’s possible to believe in something – and never learn it. Only by rejecting blind belief it’s possible to test it on yourself.

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It’s hard to accept something that changes a world picture. It’s impossible to accept something that destroys it. It’s expensive to buy new one. Only creative one is capable of making its own.

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The blind belief leads to intolerance. The wonderful hope can be broken. Only love is capable to accept crash of hope and to transform belief into trust.

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The one who destroyed God is doomed to loneliness. The one who created God outside is doomed to slavery. Only the one who have discovered God in himself becomes truly free.

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Thousands of reasons create grief. Hundreds of reasons create delight. True joy needs no reasons.

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Existence knows nothing about our plans. Existence does not take our expectations into consideration. Only those having no plans and expectations are capable to learn fullness of life.

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Blind ones call themselves as clearly seeing. Deaf ones call themselves as those who have heard the voice. Dead ones call themselves normal. Will there be a place for healthy ones in a world of sick ?

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Capitulation is a victory, and the victory is possible only in capitulation. Only the learnt will confirm these words.

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The heavy stone sinks in a river of time – and waters of the river sharpen it. There is no instant justice.

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