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KNOWING is not as good as loving; loving is not as good as enjoying. (Chinese)
IT CAN be wise to apply the oil of gentle and savoury speech so as not to
hurt one's listeners and family.
Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Briefing on Luck, Study, Power and Control over People
IT DOESN'T pay to be outsmarted. Being in luck is good, but may work for bad in a
wider picture. There are many forms and facets of luck. One is supposed to make the best
out of it. Let's look into that cursorily.In deserts, owning a good well brings good fortune. In the water, finding dry land may be favourable too.
To improve or enhance your winning streaks, learn to ascertain in advance of undertakings. Try to find out whether or how far what you're occupied with, can become a non-brittle source of nourishment. There are many sorts of nourishment.
To most people, being a Navy deserter doesn't mean good luck. But or Christian Fletcher and the mutineers of 'Bounty', maybe deserting gave way to lax living or good luck, after all.
To develop a new approach takes time and effort. It can be very costy in many ways, also in terms of human resources and goodwill. If you research or study things, you may not go ahead and earn much money. The statement "Great depth is of less speed" is a fine suggestion concerning it. But around the corner, maybe study and research pays off! That's why business companies invest huge sums of money in finding out better ways and means. Others may copy them later; it may feel as a little curse or plague when the legal rights to one's own inventions etc expire.
Luck can be of many sorts. What is termed luck depends on this and that, but luck is far more than an attitude. It yields benefits. Some are short-range, others long-range, and others come in between them. Then what may become important is this: Let no one fool you and get your benefits. Let clarity help you.
It may consist of preserving good knowledge. That may yield benefits. In Norman monasteries, for example, that happened and made the Renaissance far easier, thanks to valuable manuscripts gathered in those cloisters under Normans.
What is luck or not may baffle us [MORE]. But for the water-needing, hungry millions in a growing desert, a thunder-storm may be a good thing, for it brings rain, which furthers vegetation, the basic source of nourishment. Thus, in some countries reverence for thunder and thunderstorms has not been uncommon. Indra, for example, is a heavily revered thunder-god of Indo-Aryan texts, and a sign of how thoroughly thunderstorms were appreciated.
In the large cities, good luck may be crowned by moving out of it, or to a top flat that lies more above the smog.
Luck is hardly had by pretences, but you never know. Outward luck may tap and mar inner strength or moral - is it good if it happens, or if luck brings on an acceptance and sponges that turns out to work for one's ruin?
Shallow thinking can be dangerous, and shallow thinking about luck too. It can be quite dangerous if it leads to falling moral, lack of contact with good old friends and so on.
What most people could benefit from, however, is good control over their over-riding circumstances. The strenght of a new approach lies not just in how lucky its reception is, but the knowledge and control it gives - which can be dangerous.
Knowledge favours power, and power favours hierarchies with directors or bosses. Some of those in power think of exploiting others, humans, animals, plants and the soil itself. They tend to be a majority -
Thus, a new approach to things may be taken over by greedy ones - that's a big problem.
Should handy know-how be kept away from greedy directors, then? Maybe and maybe not.
Sage Words about a Wider Picture
THERE was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his
horse ran away. On hearing the news, his neighbours came to visit him."Oh, such bad luck," they said, full of sympathy.
"How do you know it is bad luck?" the farmer said.
Next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three wild mares.
"How wonderful," the neighbours exclaimed.
"How do you know?" replied the old man.
Next day his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown off, and broke his leg. The neighbours again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.
"How bad," they said.
"Maybe," answered the farmer.
The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army, which was bad, and which few survived. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbours congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.
"Maybe," said the farmer -
European Twist: "Good news and bad news"
A MAN reported his wedding to a friend."Good news!" responded the other.
"She was a shrew," continued the first.
"Bad news!" said the friend.
"With her dowry I bought a house," continued the first.
"Good news!" congratulated the friend.
"The house burned down," replied the first.
"Bad news!" said the other.
"Not all bad," said the first, "for she burned up with it!"
[This is one of the formula tales of European folklore, given the AT motif number
2014A - in Agha 310-11]
Don't be so brief as Salvador Dali. He gave at least one of the world's shortest speeches.
He said "I'll be so brief I have already finished," and then sat down. [Cf. Edward O.
Wilson]
Essential, proverbial wisdom tries to establish practical outcomes. [T. Kinnes]
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. [Isaac
D'Israeli]
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