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When I was in hospitable, recovering from an operation, I had more time to think than I would normally have. I had the leisure to try to work out what I felt about things, to try to distill the thought into as few words as possible. It got to be a habit and I have continued to add to those thoughts, whenever I get something worked out.   Five Facts: The more water you take out, the less there will be in the bucket. The more food you eat, the less there will be on the table. When the light is gone, there will be darkness left. The rich can't get richer without the poor getting poorer. If there isn't a question, there can't be an answer. We won't ask the question if we're afraid of the answer. Nothing is invisible. A thing is either too large to be seen completely, or too small for the focus of our eyes. Just because you can't see everything, is no reason to think infinity does not exist. Sight has limits. Eternity is time without a beginning or an end. Still, each person's slice of time in this life is their personal eternity. The main problem with life is not that we don't know the answer, but that we don't even know the question. When we ask the right question, we will get the right answer. The ultimate answer to ever question is either Yes or No. If we look beyond that, we will never be sure what the answer is. Every drawing is made up of lines. It is only necessary to put the lines in the right position to get the right shape. Things are best explained when they are not obscured by too many words. There is a certain point beyond which help becomes a hindrance. That the necessities of life have to be bought and paid for, distorts the reality. It is what makes the unnecessary seem necessary. The best reason for staying alive is being alive. Life needs no excuse. Frequent use of the mind may hone it, yet over use will blunt it's edge. The economy of the world is driven by greed rather than necessity. It isn't that people need so many things, it's just that they want them. In order to want a thing, you must know it exists. If you don't know it exists, you won't want it. Thought is like a goldfish in a bowl, thinking it is going somewhere, yet always in the same place, going around in circles. If a person thinks too much, they won't do anything. If a person does too much, they won't think anything. Balance is essential, but is probably never achieved. Life is movement. Without movement, there's no life. Death means only stillness. In the universe, there's no such thing as stillness. Therefore there's really no such thing as death. Can time really be wasted? It's there to be used, but there are different ways of using it. No matter what we do or don't do, time is being used. We don't know if what we do is valuable or not. It's all just learning in spite of ourselves. Are we here for some important reason or are we here just to play? I would be inclined to believe the last. We learn better if we enjoy ourselves. Is thought worthless? Instead of doing things as the need or occasion arises, people are forever thinking what they will do, or remembering what they have done. The only thing that exists is the now. Anything else can only be imaginary. The body doesn't need thought to function. Two different object do not need reminding that they can't inhabit the same space at the same time. Facts will be facts and don't need to be realised by thought. Sometimes it is easier to see a thought when it is written out on paper. On paper, it becomes isolated. In your mind, it becomes mixed up with too many other things. There can't really be anything new in the world. When we think something is new, we are only looking at it from a different angle. Things contradict each other. If they didn't they would not be many things, only one. Food that is too refined is not absorbed by the body. Thought that is too refined, is not absorbed by the mind. The Lord provides for all, but some people take the lot. What is the use in having a mind of your own, if you just stuff it with other people's ideas, unquestioned and unchallenged? Your head might just as well be empty. That way you would do less harm in the world. War is humanity hemorrhaging itself. It isn't merely stupidity. It's lunacy. It is always best to have your own opinion on something. Of course one's own opinion can be wrong - but so can that of other people. So you have nothing to loose by having your own. Those who found the learning easy may find the teaching hard. To know a thing well, it must have been difficult for you to learn. What you learn easily, you forget easily. It leaves no signposts to the knowledge in your mind. Why do people mix up wisdom with knowledge? Because you know a lot of things doesn't mean you are wise. Wisdom consists in using the knowledge you have in the best way possible. Merely knowing how to do it, isn't enough, it's only more knowledge. To be wise, you must make the best use possible of what you actually have. To the stupid, knowledge is like a fine set of clothes. To the wise, knowledge is a tool. No matter what any one may think, facts remain constant. It's just very difficult to see them through the curtains of opinion. If people used fewer words and kept them simple and clear, there would be less misunderstanding. Unfortunately, it would seem that the less people know, the more they talk, and most of it is just camouflage. A person should have power over their own lives. No one's power should extend beyond that. The world is full of traps, and every one gets caught in them at least once or twice in their lifetime. The epitome of learning is never to get caught in the same one twice. It seems to be a law of nature that there must be a bit of bad in everything. That is why even the best writers write badly at times. Some write badly when they're young, some write badly when they're old and some write badly all their life. And it never makes a blind bit of difference to the people who read them. People aren't afraid of the dark. They're afraid of what might be in it. Truly, who knows anything about existence? All the rules of religions, and all their scriptures, which were supposedly the will and word of God, were written by people and reflect the societies and times in which they were written, and, no doubt, the prejudices of the people who wrote them. It all comes down to belief in the end and to believe something good, is the best that anyone can do. Christianity is just one of the cults that survived. Understatement is better than overstatement. It gives people more room in which to think. Making a living and making money are two different things. Making a living is necessary, making money is not. The people who succeed are not the people with ability, but the people with determination. The rich build their fortunes on the ability of others. Knowing how to do a thing counts for nothing. You have to actually go and do it. The meaning of life is - life. A poor intelligence often hides behind a good memory. Most people's opinions are formed from what they hear, rather than what they know. When several people are giving their opinion, the one who shouts the loudest and the most often is the one who is believed. When people are too lazy to think for themselves, then their opinions will always be other people's opinions, never their own. Without doubt there would be no progress. When certainty arrives, progress ends. If "Infinity" and "Eternity" are real things and not just abstract ideas, then there can never be an end, and there has never been a beginning. if neither Eternity nor Infinity can be measured, and science cannot function without measurements, then these ideas cannot be explored with the tools of science. Nothing can be defined without reference to something else. If all the world was water, we still wouldn't know what wet was, because we'd never have known what dry was.