skyblue00

"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences,­­¬ their quests. And so are you." Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understandin­­g of the philosopher,­­ the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?"­­ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?"­­ To that there is an answer.