“What guarantees the objectivity of the world in which we
live is that the world is common to us with other thinking beings. Through the communications that we have with
other men we receive from them ready-made harmonious reasonings. We know that these reasonings do not come
from us and at the same time we recognize in them, because of their harmony,
the work of reasonable beings like ourselves.”
-Zen ad the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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