What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man’s knowledge.
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.
In the Way of Strategy, also, those who study as warriors think that whatever they cannot understand in their craft is the void. This is not the true void.
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When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.
1 year ago- A bee sitting on a flower stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and says that a bee’s purpose consists in stinging people.
- A poet admires a bee sucking from the cup of a flower and says that a bee’s purpose consists in sucking up the fragrance of flowers.
- A beekeeper, noting how a bee gathers flower pollen and brings it to the hive, says that a bee’s purpose consists in gathering honey.
- Another beekeeper, who has studied the life of a hive more closely, says that a bee collects pollen in order to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that its purpose consists in reproducing its kind.
- A botanist notes that, as a bee lands with pollen on the pistil of a dioecious flower, it fertilizes it, and in that the botanist sees the bee’s purpose.
- Another, observing the migration of plants, sees that the bee contributes to that migration, and this new observer may say it is in this that the bee’s purpose consists.
But the final purpose of the bee is exhausted neither by the one, nor the other, nor the third purpose that human reason is able to discover. The higher human reason rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious for it is the inaccessibility of the final purpose.
1 year ago
There’s no doubt that Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial design at Apple Inc, is a highly successful designer. Leaving the shores of Jolly Old England was a great idea for him as it led to him being ranked as ranked by The Sunday Times as one of Britain’s most influential expatriates. This said, it makes me curious about other Brits who’ve dabbled their hands in the American markets and succeeded. So naturally, I did a search for US granted design patents held by British based inventors, and got this list: http://theintelligentcrowd.com/kmblog/patents/englishwomen-in-new-york-or-wherever/
“The mission of Wendy’s is to deliver superior quality products and services for our customers and communities through leadership, innovation and partnerships.”
Mission statement of Wendy’s. A fast food chain.
1 year agoChina’s patents rising
1 year ago“Our…research offers neurological evidence that the brain cannot effectively do two things at once.”
- Rene Marious. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University.
1 year agoThe idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.
2 years agoOwing to some late night escapades on a Friday night, Tom Sawyer’s mother ensured that his Saturday would involve a day of hard laborious punishment for Tom Sawyer.
2 years ago