a Charming 'Twist and Turn' !

"Look before you Leap !
For snakes among sweet flowers do creep !"

"Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous."
Chanakya

"Owning to ignorance of the rope,
the rope appears to be a snake.
Owning to ignorance of the Self,
the transient state arises of the
individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self."
Guru Nanak Dev ji

"A person who looks different all the time frightens me.
Only one animal changes its skin: the snake !"
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer

Hey! There's the Light !

"Languages and Words are merely
Symbols with which to express the Truth.
But to mistake the words for the truth is
just as laughable as to mistake the finger for the moon.

Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky.
Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger.
A finger points at a moon,
but the moon is not at the tip of the finger.

Words point at the truth,
but the truth is not in words.
To seek illumination through words is
to get lost in the web of words
and not see the truth."

All ? or Nothing ?

"Winning isn't everything ...
but losing is Nothing."
Mednis

"Life is like a Game of Chess,
Changing with each Move."

"that's what chess is all about:
one day you give your opponent a lesson,
the next day he gives you one."
Bobby Fischer

"some parts of a Mistake
are always Right."
Savielly Tartakower

a Quantum ===> Leap

"Incrementalism
is the worst enemy of
Innovation."

Counting on Trouble !

"Man only likes to count his Troubles,

but he does not count his Joys."

No Shoot; No Leave!

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

Are we there yet?

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.
A man is not finished when he's defeated.
He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

All endeavor calls for the ability to
tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan,
endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic
we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau

When you have a great and difficult task,
something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work
a little at a time,
every day a little,
suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen