A great line for those people who are always told that their work is not changing anything in the society & what they are doing is all useless effort & waste of time.
Opposite for: "Go big or go home."
Opposite for: "Go big or go home."
Showing posts with label Cloud Atlas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cloud Atlas. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 10)
Islam, like other major religions, preach the same that death is only a door & when that closes, another one opens. Think of it like that death is simply a portal to another life, which just happens to be eternal.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 9)
It's pretty much 2 quotes in one:
1. If you want to know your true yourself, you need to see yourself from others' eyes / perception. It is similar to what French poet, Jacques Rigaut, said (which I will be posting btw here soon) that your true self can only be seen by others. So, we should be open to learning & improving ourselves through constructive criticism of ourselves from others. None of us is all-knowing & perfect.
2. Since, the beginning of time (or civilization), regardless of whether you believe in a religion or not, we humans have worked tirelessly to increase our life span; so much so to achieve immortality. Be the alchemists of ancient civilizations or modern A.I. (artificial intelligence) & robotics engineers, we are still trying to achieve immortality. But immortality is supposed to be in our "words & deeds", & not in our physical immortality. Our words & deeds affect people around us &, perhaps society, to the point that they may have rippling effects throughout the future of this world.
During our finite lives, we may never realize how we may have affected the world, but you can look at any of the prominent people in our histories around the world, good or bad, have gone on to achieve immortality through their words & actions.
1. If you want to know your true yourself, you need to see yourself from others' eyes / perception. It is similar to what French poet, Jacques Rigaut, said (which I will be posting btw here soon) that your true self can only be seen by others. So, we should be open to learning & improving ourselves through constructive criticism of ourselves from others. None of us is all-knowing & perfect.
2. Since, the beginning of time (or civilization), regardless of whether you believe in a religion or not, we humans have worked tirelessly to increase our life span; so much so to achieve immortality. Be the alchemists of ancient civilizations or modern A.I. (artificial intelligence) & robotics engineers, we are still trying to achieve immortality. But immortality is supposed to be in our "words & deeds", & not in our physical immortality. Our words & deeds affect people around us &, perhaps society, to the point that they may have rippling effects throughout the future of this world.
During our finite lives, we may never realize how we may have affected the world, but you can look at any of the prominent people in our histories around the world, good or bad, have gone on to achieve immortality through their words & actions.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 7)
In our non-fiction, real world, this quote can be translated as such that we are all equal regardless of where in the world we are born & to which mother we are born. We all have red blood. A quote against racism & discrimination.
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 8)
This mentality is required for our world at this very moment. We all are supposed to be actively working, in whatever capacity we can, towards ending injustice & inequality, which in turn, will help bring peace.
Inequality & injustice breed in a society where people prefer to shut their eyes (or cover their ears or shut their mouths) over speaking out against the lies being spread by our globalized corporate media against any entity or activity taking place in the world. People now have become indifferent & chalk everything up to "who am I to intervene in that person's life". But a society is made up of people, & if good people don't intervene in the beginning, then that little budding evil becomes a whole tree of evil in time, which then becomes very hard to cut down.
Just wishing for peace, like those Miss World & Miss America pageants won't bring peace or any positive, meaningful change in this world.
Inequality & injustice breed in a society where people prefer to shut their eyes (or cover their ears or shut their mouths) over speaking out against the lies being spread by our globalized corporate media against any entity or activity taking place in the world. People now have become indifferent & chalk everything up to "who am I to intervene in that person's life". But a society is made up of people, & if good people don't intervene in the beginning, then that little budding evil becomes a whole tree of evil in time, which then becomes very hard to cut down.
Just wishing for peace, like those Miss World & Miss America pageants won't bring peace or any positive, meaningful change in this world.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 3)
That's what developed countries have learned & still to be learned by developing countries ... Arab Spring happened because of this & Saudi Arabia after learning this, started to spend millions on social programs.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
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