The Meaning of Life

The meaning of life
is to give life meaning.

            Viktor E. Frankl

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poem: Only For a Short While

Oh, only for so short a while you
have loaned us to each other,
because we take form in your act of drawing us,
and we take life in your painting us,
and we breathe in your singing us.

But only for so short a while
have you loaned us to each other.
Because even a drawing cut in obsidian fades,
and the green feathers, the crown feathers,
of the Quetzal bird lose their color,
and even the sounds of the waterfall
die out in the dry season.

So, we too, because only for a short while
have you loaned us to each other.
 

                           Aztec Indian Prayer

 

 

 

 

 

What you want

Life is not about what you want.
In life, you do not get what you want,
Unless what you get
happens to coincide with what you want.
Take your attention off of what you want
And deal with what you’ve got.

                             Werner Erhard

 

 

 

 

 

Have you heard?

If things were simple,
word would have gotten around.

             Jacques Derrida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having

There’s a big cocktail party on Martha’s Vineyard.
Someone comes up to this writer,
I think it’s Joseph Heller, and says,
“Joe, see that guy over there?
He’s a hedge fund manager,
and he made more money yesterday than you made
on all the books you have ever published.”
Heller looks over, pauses, and says,
“Yeah, but I have something he’ll never have: enough.”

               CNN "Money" Magazine, April 2007

 

 

 

 

Miracles

Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce, it's a magic trick.
A single mom who's working two jobs,
and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle.
A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle.
People want Me to do everything for them,
but what they don't realize is, they have the power.
You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.

              Lines spoken by God in the movie Bruce Almighty 

 

 

 

 

 

The sun with all these planets
revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

    Galileo Galilea, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems