2015 Tibet (Lhasa 拉萨）

Photo: Taken in Tibet, China (April 2015)

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
- E. M. Forster

Photo: Taken at Chengdu, China in April 2015.

2015 Tibet (Linzhi - Peach Blossom) / 西藏林芝-桃花乐

 

Rain and Rainbow

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Think... thinking

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

What you see, matters

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Taken onboard Qingzang train to Lhasa, 2012

Beware the barrenness of a busy life

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

. . . simplify, simplify

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

The sound of a train

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
- Paul Simon

Darkness will disappear

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- Desiderius Erasmus

苏轼 <冬至日独游吉祥寺>

井底微陽回未回，蕭蕭寒雨濕枯荄。
何人更似蘇夫子，不是花時肯獨來。

- 蘇軾 <冬至日獨遊吉祥寺>

Glass mirror and works of art

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
- George Bernard Shaw

How things are

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

當下

似乎我們總是很容易忽略當下的生活，忽略許多美好的時光。而當所有的時光在被辜負被浪費后，才能從記憶裡將某一段拎出，拍拍上面沉積的灰塵，感嘆它是最好的。
- 錢鍾書

Photo: taken on flight travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu in 2010.

Looking deep into nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Photo: taken at Bukit Kembara which used to be called Ampang Reservoir, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (November 2014)

刹那成永恒

夕阳无限好

Why this is so ...

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

An understanding of ourselves

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Sit in the shade on a fine day

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen

Today

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
-- Horace
(Poem #1365) Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man

Life handed you a lemon

"Life handed him a lemon,
As Life sometimes will do.
His friends looked on in pity,
Assuming he was through.
They came upon him later,
Reclining in the shade
In calm contentment, drinking
A glass of lemonade."

- Clarence Edwin Flynn
[published in “The Rotarian” in November 1940]

Look deep into nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

理直气和

Photo taken at Chengdu, China in 2010

Explain it simply

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein