Вполне логично говорить, что научное открытие уменьшает область неизвестного. Но не менее логично утверждать, что она при этом увеличивается. По вине самого открытия и увеличивается. Когда человек идет в гору, перед ним все раздвигается горизонт, но и все протяженней становятся земли, лежащие за горизонтом

Quotes #18 : If tomorrow comes...

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

Quotes #18 : In despair ? Take action !

"Action is the andidote to despair." Joan Baez 

Act even if not sure, even if clumsy, even if not right the first time. Step, sway, stumble, fall, get up and step again.

It is OK to be wrong, it is OK to be confused as long as you are doing something.

"Confusion is a great opportunity. It simply says that through the mind there is no way. If you are really confused you are blessed. Now something is possible, something immensely valuable; you are on the verge. If you are utterly confused, that means the mind has failed; now the mind can no longer supply any certainty to you." Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Talk #4

Interesting reading on confusion by Osho : http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-confusion-heidegger-rate-535e3374-394.aspx .

Quotes #18 : Self-acceptance

" I can be nothing but what I am, and I am trying to be that to the best of my ability." Osho Zen Transformation Tarot

Heart's-ease in the king's garden

You cannot improve upon yourself. And I am not saying that improvement does not happen, remember--but you cannot improve upon yourself. When you stop improving upon yourself, life improves you. In that relaxation, in that acceptance, life starts caressing you, life starts flowing through you. Nobody else has ever been like you and nobody else will ever be like you; you are simply unique, incomparable. 

Accept this, love this, celebrate this--and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. 

Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of oneself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms.

I have heard: 
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose. He found Heart's-ease blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, he received this reply: 

"I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted Heart's-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine or a rose, you would have planted them. So I thought that since you put me here, I should do the best I can to be what you want. I can be nothing but what I am, and I am trying to be that to the best of my ability." 

You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here!--existence would not have helped you to be here, would not have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are. If God wanted a Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha--that was enough, and he was satisfied to his heart's desire, utterly satisfied. Since then he has not produced another Buddha or another Christ. 

He has created you instead. Just think of the respect that the universe has given to you! You have been chosen, not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna. You will be needed more, that's why. You fit more now. Their work is done, they contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you have to contribute your fragrance. 

But the moralists, the puritans, the priests, they go on teaching you, they go on driving you crazy. They say to the rose, "Become a lotus." And they say to the lotus, "What are you doing here? You have to become something else." They drive the whole garden crazy, everything starts dying--because nobody can be anybody else, that is not possible. 

That's what has happened to humanity. Everybody is pretending. Authenticity is lost, truth is lost, everybody is trying to show that he is somebody else. Just look at yourself: you are pretending to be somebody else. And you can be only yourself--there is no other way, there has never been, there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You will remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.

Quotes #18 : Self is made through action

"The self is not something ready-made,
 but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
          John Dewey

And even if you choose it wrong the first time, and the second time, and even the third time, still only through action you can learn the best course, get the best relationships and - what is most important - find and feel the best feeling of self-respect and accomplishment.

Quotes #18 : Dream and it happens

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." Carl Sandburg (born Jan, 6, 1878).

 When you really set your mind upon something, when you really want something to happen, you don't even have to do anything. 
It comes to you itself, immediately, without your effort, without even a single movement from your side, right to your door and knocks. You only have to open and come out.

Quotes #18 : Is money really worth it ?

"A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money." Everett Dirksen (b. Jan. 4, 1896), on federal spending.