Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunt about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Note: In 1997, Dennis Dean published an article in the Philological Quarterly titled 'Some Quotations in Keats's Poetry'. "In his "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats will say exactly the same thing, more elegantly but more cryptically also: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"--surely the most famous equation in English literature and precisely correct in suggesting the Newtonian origin of the unstated "proof.
" "'Beauty is truth; truth, beauty'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. " Source: 'Some Quotations in Keats's Poetry' by Dennis R. Nothing Gold Can Stay. What is Truth? Here we are alive and breathing without knowing why or how. This is a very interesting point for me. No human being has ever made the decision to exist. Nobody knows why they exists, nobody knows what was before and what comes after this existence.
Of course we can speculate we did choose to exist, but still we're just using this mind and the ability to think and imagine to speculate, it is never the Truth. We can also speculate by looking at what was before us, rocks, fossils. This mysterious awareness is also the door to explore the spiritual world, the paranormal, the strange, the unknown, and to get mystical experiences. What I mean is that actually nobody knows anything, even the enlightened person, the Master, the Guru are uncertain, no one has certainties, we're all walking blindly. But what Truth is this? This is the basis to begin, the Truth, and the rest comes after. These negative manifestations are symptoms of a spiritual and psychological disease affecting the human race. Www.avelution.com/Overloaded Circuits - Why Smart People Underperform, HBR 2005.pdf. Review: Getting Things Done. Each Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal productivity or personal development book.
From my perspective, David Allen’s Getting Things Done is the book on modern personal productivity. It really has changed my life significantly, as I’ve written about in the past and alluded to a few times, but I’ve never really reviewed the book itself in detail. To alleviate that, I pulled out my well-worn and repeatedly hand-annotated copy of Getting Things Done and read through it again, trying to see it again through the eyes of someone who is unfamiliar with the philosophy. What follows are my notes on this walkthrough, which hopefully will provide more than enough detail to get the general ideas in the book and also make up your mind whether or not it’s something that’s right for you. What’s The Basic Premise? A Stroll Through Getting Things Done Allen suggests a “test the water” exercise that’s worth repeating here.
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