Richard Branson says he got where he did by saying 'yes' but in the Indian context the reverse is a skill to be learnt. Saying 'no'. To irrelevance, to clashes with your values, to distractions (if that is how one works). But not to serendipities, to growth and to understanding.
austere
· 10 months ago
best :)
gauri
· 10 months ago
"Wer sucht, findet nicht. Wer nicht sucht, wird gefunden" -Franz Kafka. (Roughly: If you search, you'll never find [it]. When you don't search, you will be found).
Nice one. Had read Siddhartha almost a decade ago. Maybe I should read it again...
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Haas
· 10 months ago
"Sometimes to find what you are desperately searching for, you just need to stop looking for it" - John Locke(Lost)
Siddhartha is my all time favorite book :) Reading your post made me want to read it again...
Ps: Nice title btw :)
kavi
· 10 months ago
"Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. "
That was so powerful ! Keep walking goes beyond Johnie Walker. Thank God for small mercies !
Shefaly
· 10 months ago
Alternatively (and since the relative clause in German is different from that in English and Kafka's works in translation are often open to interpretation):
"Wer sucht, findet nicht, aber wer nicht sucht, wird gefunden." would mean "(He), who searches, does not find. (He), who does not search shall be found."
I believe the meaning in this case is to be read in the same way as in Amazing Grace "I once was lost, but now (I) am found" :-)
Maan
· 10 months ago
Damn i read it a tad too late.. :) or maybe its never too late ...
manuscrypts
· 10 months ago
shefaly: agree on the first point... ah similar ones, nice.. i guess everyone grapples with the same set :)
austere: thanks :)
manuscrypts
· 10 months ago
gauri: sometime later, i shall too, i think :)
haas: thanks.. and for dropping in :)
manuscrypts
· 10 months ago
kavi: it does.. and there's a lot of walking the book too :)
rads
· 10 months ago
I just picked up Herman Hesse for a few other reasons, and your post drove my point home. Well written and echoed my sentiments. Thank you :-)
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Nice one. Had read Siddhartha almost a decade ago. Maybe I should read it again...
g
Siddhartha is my all time favorite book :) Reading your post made me want to read it again...
Ps: Nice title btw :)
That was so powerful ! Keep walking goes beyond Johnie Walker. Thank God for small mercies !
"Wer sucht, findet nicht, aber wer nicht sucht, wird gefunden." would mean "(He), who searches, does not find. (He), who does not search shall be found."
I believe the meaning in this case is to be read in the same way as in Amazing Grace "I once was lost, but now (I) am found" :-)
or maybe its never too late ...
austere: thanks :)
haas: thanks.. and for dropping in :)
Thank you :-)