Enlightenment

I've realized in the past two days that you only realize the number of people that love and care about you in the face of adversity. This has been said a thousand times, but I have only realized this simple truth now. It really is nice to know that there are countless numbers of people in our lives that we can count on for moral support, and who will go out of their way to help us.


WORDS OF WISDOM FROM TS ELIOT
(I've never read any of his works, but I got these from Dean Koontz new novel, "Velocity" -> not his best work)

• Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.
• Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
• The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.
• May the judgement not be too heavy upon us.
• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
• In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession. And what you do not know is the only thing you know.
• In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
• The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil
• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.