Krishnamurti once said that it is impossible to become intelligent by starting from a position of ignorance and simply saying, "I want to be smart." The only way to become intelligent, he proposed, was to begin to examine what it was that made a person ignorant; and in that examination, one would undergo the process of becoming intelligent. They would, by an act of awareness, be less ignorant.
I think perhaps that if you seek for the strength to fail, you will not be able to fail (for the finding of that strength would in fact be a success). It is VERY, very difficult to be a complete failure (you would end up being a success at failure, which of course would be self-defeating).
I suggest accepting your weakness. In that awareness, you will find the strength.
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Date: 2003-01-14 08:50 pm (UTC)I think perhaps that if you seek for the strength to fail, you will not be able to fail (for the finding of that strength would in fact be a success). It is VERY, very difficult to be a complete failure (you would end up being a success at failure, which of course would be self-defeating).
I suggest accepting your weakness. In that awareness, you will find the strength.
Bright Blessings to you.
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Date: 2003-01-14 09:01 pm (UTC)But thank you for your words. Truly.
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Date: 2003-01-15 12:08 am (UTC)...there is no meaning in either inherent.
They are social markers.
Find the strength to be your convictions.
That is all.
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Date: 2003-01-15 08:00 am (UTC)