Law Inc : Diary 1974 Onwards

Diary - 1974 onwards

Intelligence is the ability to adjust with the new situation.
Intelligence is the capacity to profit by past experience.

Intelligence is the capacity to think abstractly/ objectively.

Intelligence is the aggregate of many abilities.

The world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel - Horace Walpole Letters.

A sole thing the God demands from all men living is sacrifice.

We are born with two eyes and one tongue, so that we can observe twice as much as we speak, this is nature’s plan. But from our conduct it might be thought, that we have two tongues and one eye.

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

Capacity to change one’s opinions in the light of new facts is proof of wisdom, far too rare in our changing world.

Only a life lived for others is the life worthwhile.

Hope is a good break fast, but it is a bad supper.

The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.

It is no disgrace to be a shoemaker, but it is a shame for a shoemaker to make bad shoes.

Influence is what you think you have, until you try to use it.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

No man is born without fault; he is best who displays the fewest.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Health enough to make work a pleasure,
Wealth enough to support your needs,
Strength enough to battle difficulties and over come them,
Patience enough to toil until some good has been accomplished,
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Charity enough to see the good in your neighbors,
Love enough to move you to be useful helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of god,
Hope enough to remove all wondering the future,

All man’s constructive achievements are the result of organized thoughts, directed to definite ends, in a positive mental attitude, backed by belief.

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.

Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

When I hear somebody sigh that ‘life is hard’ I am always tempted to ask ‘compared to what’.

He who loses his individuality loses all.

The worst thing about getting old is, listening to the children advice.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

The best way to kill time, is to work it to death;

Do not destroy, break not, and pull not anything down but built.

Even in failure there is a preparation for success.

Truth nourishes the soul, untruth corrodes it,

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed digested ‘of studies’

It (life) is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot of certainties in this our life.

Trust no future, however pleasant let the dead past burry its dead! Act, act in the living present!

He heard him, and God over heard.

Its’ with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike. Yet each believes his own.

Here hath been dawning another blue day, think will thou let it slip uselessly away!

Man is never victorious, never defeated, the cheater yields up his loot to the cheated, wisdom and folly can never be parted, the water return to the hills where they started,

I would rather make my name, than inherit it.

Do not attach importance to being known, but try and be worth knowing.

Wherever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

The value of life, depends on its dignity.

There is no great revolutionist then the small little conscience that resides in the human heart.

Awareness, is the beginning of understanding.

The exhaustion of the passions, is the beginning of wisdom.

The eagle never lost so mush time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Much is forgiven for the ignorant and the illiterate, but nothing evil or foolish is forgiven for the educated.

Love as an internal feeling cannot be commanded. So also is respect.

Not so much by express assignment as on the principle that the willing horse draws the load.

Oliver Gold Smith describes republics as places, “Where the laws govern the poor and the rich govern the laws”.

Change yourself first; reform yourself and you will reform thousand.

One’s effort should be directed towards making himself a person who is respected and looked up to.

Remember – At the time of thy birth all laughed, thou cried. Live in such a way that at the time of thy death all were to cry, thou alone smiling.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow,

Great mind talk ideas, average mind talk events, small mind talk people,

I must pay my way by what I do.

The lights by great, men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my fable capacity truth and justice at the risk of pleasing no one.

Seeing a beautiful object or hearing a beautiful sound, even happy persons becomes restless, maybe they remember a forgotten love from another life,

The man who knows the truth has no occasion to shout. The man who knows the truth need not shout.

Those that are well made, suffers least alterations from time and other influences (from within or without).

A fault that deserves immediate and emphatics condemnation especially if untruth have no beauty in it,

To mark time, to wait, is it self the way to success.

You are not mature until you expect the unexpected.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably does can’t lead anywhere.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices in those which he has,

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Each man must love himself and seek what is useful in him.

The greatest pleasure is the complete absence of pain.

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder,

Ralph sock man in now to live.

He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence,

The quality of perseverance and loyalty to idea is what is important, not the quality of work,

The need of the country is ‘socialism’ not ‘state capitalism’.

The good user of men places himself below others lasts.

No information is so fully seized and so tightly held as that which is collected and arranged for a ‘special purpose’.

Maya is an erroneous perception.

Non-perception of non-duality makes us perceive the duality.

Man is not a part of the lord the essential nature of man is the nature of the lord.

Discover the lord as the content of your being.

Knowledge is a choice less happening.

A source of freedom is the definition of truth.

The treason of the intellectuals consists in his not speaking out loud and clean for the values that he, by the vision and the very nature of his personality lows sacred.

What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost.

Men serve women on their knees, when they rise, they go away.

While saints are engaged in introspection, burly sinners run the world.

Redouble your efforts, when you have forgotten your aim.

Inquiry and investigations can focus only on the past, on issues of pain and sorrow and blame. The focus must be on future. An inquiry will set people against people “was someone negligent? whose fault was it”- seeking out to find a villain, accusing some people of being responsible for others misery, only make a lonely person lonelier. Life has to be lived for something, not just against something. The question to be asked is not “why did this happen”, but ‘Now that this has happened, what should be done about it’. Revitalize yourself and participate with “optimism, energy, authority, pragmatism, candor, audacity and a taste for succeeding.”

Crafty men condemn studies wise men use them, learn for labour, before you grow old, for learning is precious than silver and gold. Silver and gold will vanish away, but required knowledge never decay.

Three things are too wonderful for me, four I do not understand: The way of an eagle in the sky; the way of a support on a rock; the way of a ship on the high seas; and the way of a man with a maiden,

Either live with glorious victory of die with fame. Fight and fall nobly, or conquer mightily.

The world is neither flat nor round, it is crooked,

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects out at never was and never will be.

I believe I have found the missing link between animals and civilized man it is me

Our original constitution provided for stability without stagnation and growth without destruction of human value,

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Change from the habit of thinking about and fearing the things you do not desire, to the habit of believing you can make and will make life pay off on your own terms.

Change the habit of thinking and talking of the physical ailments you may have to fear you will acquire to the habit of speaking and thinking of the perfect health you desire, until you develop a “health consciousness”.

Change from the habit of desiring more material things than you need and can use, to the habit of sharing your riches so that they will serve others and thereby multiply themselves in your behalf.

Change from the habit of self-satisfaction to the habit of positive discontentment sufficient to keep you searching for more knowledge and wisdom to make your life richer both spiritually and materially.

Change from the habit of in to brance to the habit of open mindedness on all subjects, towards all people, remembering that a closed doesn’t grow, but atrophies and become powerless.

Change from the habit of fault finding to the habit of looking for the good in other people and betting them know that you have discovered it. It is true that people will see in you whatever you see in them, he it good of bad.

Change from the habit of self-pity to the habit of facing facts about yourself and the real causes of your fears and worries. The looking glass will be helpful in making this change.

Change from the habit of speaking disparagingly of others to the habit of praising them, for this is also a habit, which will inspire reciprocation.

To be born a gentleman is an accident to die one an achievement.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

We are born to ‘act’ in this world, not to ‘react’ to the objects, emotions and thoughts.

The best method (path) of removing the impediment between efficiency and proficiency is love- bakti- dedication.

Love lightly, smile brightly hold lightly, politely life is a giggle as long as you are single, but when you get double, you will be inviting trouble.

Nowadays women don’t hire domestic help they marry it.

After all, what is fashion? From the artistic point of view. It is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

What is marriage; but a tenacious link of shared laughter, shared tears, shared experiences, shared thoughts, shared ideas, shared ambitions, and underneath this all, a basis of love and tolerance and trust.

He lost half an hour every morning and spent the day searching for it.

No quest higher then the quest of knowledge, no knowledge higher then the knowledge of self.

Read as to what you want to know speak as to what you feel.

Life is a science to live it is an art.

An understanding developed in the long course of acquaintance giving rise to a profound sense of respect and dedication is ‘Love’.

Don’t overthrow a kingdom replace it.

I can give today for tomorrow, but I won’t give tomorrow for tomorrow.

Every suppressed will and every unheard cry gives rise to chains and shackles which bind us in the form of ‘statutes’.

There must be food for thoughts, but no thoughts for food.

Injustice thrives in an individual justice everywhere.

Loneliness is vulnerable but every loneliness is a pinnacle,

Everything, which has a function, has also a corresponding virtue.

The world was all out to trap him, to subdue him, to bind him in the chains and shackles of love, affection, anger, hate, melancholy and various effects of his projections. He denied to be trapped, he was what he was –‘Free and liberated’.

Oh! The egoist man, he catches hold of some vibrations, manifests them in perceivable form and calls it to be his crates.

Love is a total and/or a complete emotional involvement with another being, which seeps down to the sub-conscious stage.

When you are consciously and sub-consciously always aware of the existence of a being somewhere, it is a total emotional involvement- you are in love- watch out.
Is it not luck that you don’t yet the right thought at the right time,

Eternity of drunkenness is the fairest reward of ‘Love’.

Physical desires have a direct co-relation with the functioning of the mind and intellect.

Is not the society manifestation of an individual on a multifarious/multitudinous plane,

Some love one, some love two, I love one that is you. I do not know, who loves who, I only know, that I love you.

I am a professional, not a tool maker, but toolmaker is also a professional,

For fools rush in where, angels fear to tread.

The earth is a lunatic asylum for the inhabitants of the other planets who have gone mad.

Put not your trust in money but put money but put your money in trust.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Milton, when blind married a shrewish wife. A friend desirous of complimenting the poet on his choice termed Milton is wife a ‘Rose’. “I can’t judge colures,” said Milton “and it may be as you say for I feel the thorn’s daily”.

‘I used to think you were not a man of your words, Jones, but I’ve changed my mind. ‘Ah’, you understand me now, Brown, But what caused you to change your mind’. ‘You remember you borrowed ten pounds from me?’ ‘Yes’. ‘You said if I lent it to you, you will be indebted for ever’. ‘Yes’. ‘Well you are keeping your words like a man’.

He was teaching her arithmetic’s. He said it was his mission. He kissed her once; he kissed her twice and said “Now that addition”. And as he added smack-by-smack all to his satisfaction, He gently kissed her on the back, and said “Now that subtraction”. Old uncle came upon the scene snorting with decision. He kicked, “jumbo” “Now that long division”.

A (American) wife’s opinion: - The average man is 40 around chest, 40 around waist, 95 around the golf course and a nuisance around the house.

My fellow countryman kiss the hand that beats them, Glorify those whom they hate. Not only they have not been educated but also their morals are being corrupted. It is not the life of one individual, which stands between our liberty and it but us, is our own values and visions, which obstruct our development.