Hesse
“...only now do I realize how many paths there are to knowledge and that the path of the mind is not the only one and perhaps not even the best one...” Narcissus and Goldmund. 1930.
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La sabiduria de Nadal.
Todos los que ganan tienen siempre una cosa en común que es básica. No es la humildad ni todas esas cosas que quedan muy bien y muy bonitas. Mejor si la tienes, como la tiene él, pero hay mucha gente que ha ganado mucho, una barbaridad, y que es arrogante. Lo que te hace ganar es querer ganar y querer hacer todo lo que toca para ganar. Querer trabajar cuando no te apetece. Saber aguantarte en los momentos complicados pensando que van a cambiar. Ser lo suficientemente tozudo para pensar que las cosas saldrán bien cuando no salen a la primera ni a la décima. Que la mente esté preparada para asumir las dificultades para así poder superarlas . Sin lugar a dudas, todos los que ganan tienen eso. Rafael Nadal, 2011.
Dedicated to Yuri Gagarin
“Someone who never met God on Earth, would never meet Him in space" I find this to be a remarkable quote from the first human to journey into outer space, the first human that ever saw the earth from outside, when his ‘Vostok spacecraft’ completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Some people have disputed the authenticity of it and said that it was a made up phrase by Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. I still believe that Yuri Gagarin was an a man of reason and science, where there is no room for a ‘God’ In Russian.... " Кто-то , кто никогда не встречался с Богом на Земле, никогда бы не встретиться с ним в космосе " Я нахожу это замечательным цитата из первого человека совершить путешествие в космос, первым человеком , который когда-либо видела земля извне, когда его "Восток космический аппарат " завершил орбиту Земли 12 апреля 1961 года. Некоторые люди оспаривают п...
Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus pondered a great deal about his friend. His special gift of spotting and emotionally recognizing the nature and destiny of others had long since told him about Goldmund. All that was alive and radiant in this young man spoke only too clearly: he bore all the marks of a strong human being, richly endowed sensually and spiritually, perhaps an artist, but at any rate a person with a great potential for love, whose fulfillment and happiness consisted of being easily inflamed and able to give himself. Then why was this being with such rich and perceptive senses so set on leading the ascetic life of the mind? Narcissus: "Look," he said, "I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them. For you to learn that about yourself is the potential reason fo...
