Big Hello to all the members, greatful to be the member of this forum. Hope I will learn so many things from you guys and try to contribute to the best of my knowledge. cheers tingriman
Welcome We are, at once, student and teacher. No matter the level of expertise, everyone is able to contribute because not everyone has been there, done that in all instances. Look forward to your contributions. Monk
Well . . . I agree that we do not come into the world preprogrammed. But . . . I would suggest that fewer than 10% of the population (Maslow claimed 1%) live to their full potential because the cloven-hoofed masses who infest this place are just that: sheep, who follow the dictates of a bovine society that is wont to drag everyone along with it - and we acquiesce. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu addressed this tragedy in a wonderful little book entitled "Growing Young." Therein he details the annihilation of our essential child-like qualities of spontaneity, curiosity, individuality, zeal to learn, lust for life, et al., It is as if we are swept out to sea in a wave of living death, there to repose on an island of maturity and, having arrived, experience no further growth. There is a small boy in us that we exclude from the pitiless surfaces of the mirrors that life would hold to him. Grow up, is what time says to us, and externally we obey it. The brow furrows, the mouth sets, the eyes that were made for the reflection of first love have a hole at the centre through which we may look down into the abyss of meaning. But there is that crying within the young child who has fallen and will not pick itself up and is unconsoled, knowing there is nobody for it to run to. R. S. Thomas The Orphan Monk