Student: I am capable of so much more.
Master: Show me.
Category: Philosophy
Think deep.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I can’t do this.
Master: You will do this.
Doug’s Mantras
Quit using gutteral noises as a form of language.
Deep Thoughts
It is difficult to accomplish anything while your mind is trying to accomplish everything. –DM
True nobility is being superior to your former self
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
—
Ernest Hemingway(not Hemingway)
Tears of a Parent aka Oh How I Cry
My children may never know
How many tears I shed for them
Tears of joy for their successes
Tears of sadness when they are down
Tears of regret for my mistakes
Tears of anguish at my shortcomings
Tears of frustration for lack of time
Tears of angst for their future
Tears of confusion when they do not listen
Tears of acknowledgment that they walk their own path
Tears of befuddlement for making the simple hard
Tears of acceptance for innocence lost
Tears of pride for the compliments they receive
Tears of satisfaction when they smile at their achievements
Tears of ecstasy seeing them grow into independent adults
There’s a Doug none of you know.
I think I miss being angry.
Is the fight right
Time is fleeting
In the metaphoric stream of life
Do we fight the current
Or go with the flow
You can push upstream
Or float down
Which way do you go
Depends upon your life goal
Is it the source
Which forces fight to deny You
Or is it the delta
You struggle to steer
So focused on the destination
We fail to see others in the stream
Sharing the same dream
Or are we all lemmings
Walking a path because we are told
At the beginning or perhaps end
Of life’s stream is the goal
The wise will take pause
And stand immobile
To be in the current
Current in the moment
And observe
The shores
The rocks
The fish
The trees
The others
Before we are too old.
Deep thoughts
I could do with more life in my time.
Why do we not see species other than humans drinking milk as adults?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I will do all that I can do today and nothing more.
Master: Who will do the rest?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I have failed.
Master: But have you given up?
Happiness
Frozen
Here I sit
All locked up
Mentally deranged
And out of luck
Pondering all
That must be done
Thinking, thinking
Doing none
To banish
The stress
Must
Think less
Trying
To decide
Which thing
To do
Is still
Thinking
Much ado
About nothing
I turn
Off my mind
To think less
And do more
For doing
Is how
Things get done
And
Put my troubles
On the run
By thinking none
And doing all.
Deep Thoughts
If I accomplish but one thing today, let it be that I am a better person than I was yesterday.
