The
art…. to Live!
If we already knew how to live
the life would be rather superfluous.
[The art to be honest] [The art to forgive] [The art to love other] [The art to change another] [The art to be a human being]
I
You can have more than
thousand reasons to live. You can have less
than one. You can live mostly
to see what is happening to other. You can live because
you don't dare to die. You can suicide to let go live with you fear to
die. You can give your life
for the right to live. You have a right to
live for other and other have a
right to live for you then you probably
have a right to live for your own sake. It is dangerous to
live without love for life. Who is protecting
what he doesn't want? A life without
longing is like an aeroplane without destination. Sooner or later it
has to land. II You can live for what
you did yesterday. You can live for what
you want to do to morrow You can live for what
you do while you are doing
it. To run away from life
would probably be more difficult than run away from
your own shadow a sunny day. Saying yes to life is
to stop wait for what you already have. If your life was
without meaning for so long that you begin to ask yourself about the meaning of
your life then your life do
have meaning. The searching one
will find but not always what
he is searching for. Rather a detour than
no way. Maybe it isn't always
that fun to be the one you are but who else could
you be? To find out whom you
really are you need to find out
whom you aren't. The rest would
probably be that part which looks at the rest. III Fear is an
anticipated suffering. Fearlessness is
ability to leave out of consideration of pain until it hurts. Cowardice shows that
fear is stronger than will. Courage shows that
will is stronger than fear. Frankness is the one
who don't need courage. Foolhardy is the one
who runs through a forest without stop at the
trees. You can be afraid for
what could have happen You can be more
afraid for reprise of something you
think never had happen. You can be most
afraid to find out why you are afraid. One could think that
you show courage when you are
fearless. One could think that
you are fearless when you show courage. You can seem
courageous when you are afraid
to show you don't dare. It demands courage to
admit a lack of courage. A way to get courage
is to mix with somebody which are even more
afraid than you. IV
You are the
definitely centre of the universe The universe has a
lot of definitely centres. You are in centre
when you leave your self. You are eccentric
when you make an effort not to be like somebody else. You are in centre
when you clean your house for your own sake You are eccentric when
you clean your house for not to be ashamed. Through praise for
adjust and critic for independence we were made to be as
other and we all become the
same different to us selves. The one who is
adapted is easy to control. Deviated we call the
one who left the footsteps for to be on his own. Freedom isn't to go a
showed way in the wrong direction. The meek lamb, which
allows cutting, castration and slaughtering is the symbol of
"easiness". The headstrong goat,
which runs around in the mountains - butts and play is the symbol of the
"troublesome ness". You can feel sadness
for a lost friend. But you will feel
sadder if you lost yourself. V "Self-love" has the one who dare love him self also when nobody else
love him. Others
"self-enough" will only scare the
one who is dependent on to be indispensable
to other. Only the one who say
yes to him self can say yes to other. Ruthless is the one
who don’t care in others interests. Conscienceless is the
one who close his eyes for his own doubt. Others offence will
often be tolerated by the one who hasn't
yet been threat on his toes. To take care of the
newborns right can be a way to take
care of our own right. VI Power is that right
which don't need a right to prove right. One can show his
superiority in fear to show his inferiority. Publicity works best
when it makes the slave act as master. You can think what
you don't see don't exist. Blue-eyed-ness leads
sometime to one blue eye to whom which don't
look up. VII The one who try his
strength sometime will fail. The one who will
prove his weakness mostly successes. For to dare successes
we need to dare fail. For to dare meeting
we need to dare apartness. For to dare live we
need to dare die. Failing eliminate the
risk for others envy and own recklessness. Failing successes
when the fear to success is bigger than the fear for failure. Failing can means
that there is someone you don't wish to shine in your sun. Failing can mean that
you rather would have successes with something else. A little success has
the one who envy other their success because with that
thought he reduces himself. That's why it is
clever to wish for other what you wish for yourself. The one who do what
he really want to, will avoid envy because he doesn't
long for other distances. Happiness is to see
that life just is an experiment on large scale. VIII A clean life can be
rather colourless. You need to admit
your weakness for to yield. The only way to stop
is to stop. You could wish for
yourself to mix with those who inspire you to rest in yourself and wait to mix with
those who make you praise yourself It isn't just
laughter which infect. The one who never did
a fail worth hiding has never made a
progress worth seeing. Could we learn by
others failures we didn't need do so many ourselves. You could regret so
much that you didn't do what you wanted to that you don't have
time to do what you want. In your last
minute you will not regret what you did
but more what you
didn't do. IX What we most want to
do won't always agree what you wanted most to have done. Actually you should
act when your will - your thoughts and feelings go in the same direction. Nothing much will be
done but what you do will be fun. X To ponder is to sit
at home and consider about why you sit at home
and consider. No one can kill the
time without killing a little of him self. Time can seem long
when it get stuck as to invite us to follow the rhythm. Feeling sad over lost
time is to loose some more time to be sad of. It takes long time to
get old friends. Nothing grows quicker
by pulling. Disgust makes life seem long. Happiness makes time
run. What if it was the
other way around? XI Failed consideration
is to sacrifice your meat to a hungry which shows up to be
a vegetarian. Officiousness is with
enthusiasm to give me what I don't want and then say: - This I did for you
- what did you for me? Giving up being
satisfied will satisfy nobody. We usually give to other
what we don't know we need for our selves. The pain we feel when
an other are taken what we always was missing makes it hard to give
what we never have had. XII
A lot will mean that
the reality are made of visions Other will mean that
it won't agree with the reality. All castles started
as castles in the air. Pioneers run away
from people who say: - It isn't worth
trying! The camp followers
will say when it successes: - Every one could
have done that better! If you wait for what
life has to give the life gives you
waiting on what life have to
give. XIII Worries, which don't
come true will be a returning meaningfulness because no one will
worry in vain then you risk to
realize what you mostly fear. What you believe will
lead you in the same way as what you know. It is for sure a pity
for the one who feel sorry for him self. Luck has only the one
who sees when luck is coming. Un-luck has the one
who only sees when un-luck is coming Can you choose your
expectation? Would you
expect that your expectation would be realized?
Or will it depend on
your expectation? What if your life is
exactly like your expectations? To loose your life by
an catastrophe isn't as bad as loosing your life
by eternal worries for an catastrophe. The one who wait to
live until he has solved the problems in life will never solve the
problems. The only way to start
is to start. To cross a limit you
need to catch the limit. Rather a wrong
position in the right direction than a right position
in a wrong direction. Missing respect for
your own will can make you wish
trying an others will. You can't believe
everybody who say: - My way is the right
way for you. XIV Choosing one is
avoiding another. Otherwise it wasn't a
choice. No choice is also a
choice. Half answer is no
answer. Half promise is no
promise. Half decision is no
decision. The one who want
don't doubt. Doubt is a certain
sign for no. A clear no is like a
mirror with unclear motives. That you only want to
want - you don't want. You can believe that
you keep freedom to choose by not using it. What you believe you
less want could be what you most fear. Strength without will
is like a ship without rudder. Will without strength
is like a rudder without ship. You have to hold on
you stubborn point of view until you change it
with another. That passion which
was coping - wasn't a passion. The one who miss a
goal will not know when he is there. Nobody can serve two
masters. It is hard enough to
serve one. That way the nose is
pointing the stupid ness will follow. Cleverness can choose
a way in a "for ever" perspective. But both can fall in
the same hole and find the same spirit. Epilogue Already when I was young
I had a lot to learn. Now there will be
more than ever. The writer thanks his
parents because he didn't
would have had the possibility to write this book
without them. |