君子安雅

1. 水火有气而无生，草木有生而无知，禽兽有知而无义，人有气、有生、有知、亦且有义，故最为天下贵也。 ---王制篇
2. 人之所以为人者何已也？曰：以其有辨也。饥而欲食，寒而欲暖，劳而欲息，好利而恶害，是人之所生而有也，是无待而然者也，是禹、桀之所同也。然则人之所以为人者，非特以二足而无毛也，以其有辨也。……夫禽兽有父子而无父子之亲，有牝牡而无男女之别。故人道莫不有辨。《非相》
3. 凡生乎天地之间者，有血气之属必有知，有知之属莫不爱其类。今夫大鸟兽则失亡其群匹，越月逾时，则必反铅；过故乡，则必徘徊焉，鸣号焉，踯躅焉，踟蹰焉，然后能去之也。小者是燕爵犹有啁噍之顷焉，然后能去之。故有血气之属莫知于人。-- 礼论
4. 越人安越，楚人安楚，君子安雅 (正而有美德者谓之雅)

运命论

三国，李康
1. 夫治乱，运也；穷达，命也；贵贱，时也。屈原以之沉湘，贾谊以之发愤，不亦过乎！
2. 其所以得然者，岂徒人事哉？授之者天也，告之者神也，成之者运也。
3.孔子曰：“清明在躬，气志如神。嗜欲将至，有开必先。天降时雨，山川出云。”
4. 夫道足以济天下，而不得贵于人；言足以经万世，而不见信于时；行足以应神明，而不能弥纶于俗；应聘七十国，而不一获其主；驱骤于蛮夏之域，屈辱于公卿之门。其不遇也如此。... 其徒子夏，升堂而未入室者也。退老于家，魏文侯师之，西河之人肃然归德，比之于夫子而莫敢间其言。
5. 然则圣人所以为圣者，盖在乎乐天知命矣。故遇之而不怨，居之而不疑也。其身可抑，而道不可屈；其位可排，而名不可夺。...是以圣人处穷达如一也。故木秀于林，风必摧之；堆出于岸，流必湍之；行高于人，众必非之。
6.凡希世苟合之士，蘧蒢戚绝之人，俯仰尊贵之颜，逶迤势利之间，意无是非，赞之如流；言无可否，应之如响。
7. 天地之大德曰生，圣人之大宝曰位，何以守位曰仁，何以正人曰义。故古之为王者，盖以一人治天下，不以天下奉一人也。古之仕者，盖以官行其义，不以利冒其官也。古之君子，盖耻得之而弗能治也，不耻能治而弗得也。原乎天人之性，核乎荣辱之算，其昭然矣。故君子舍彼取此。

拯救撒该

1. 撒该极其富足：他必定是一个“不诚实”的税吏，如果他按照罗马人的税额征收的话，他就不可能“富足”。
耶稣说：“灵里贫穷的人有福了！”有一本解经书翻译成“绝望的人有福了！”当一个人无路可走的时候，绝望者可能会转向耶稣，这一位唯一能给他们所渴望的拯救。耶稣真的是相信一个人灵里贫穷，或是哀恸，或是逼迫，或是饥渴慕义，有一种比我们其它的人特别的“优势”。也许就是由于这个，绝望的人可能会向神呼求，如果这样，这个人确是有福了。
当我进行这个练习的时候，我才开始明白为什么有那么多的圣徒自愿地降服在贫穷的操练之下。依靠、谦卑、简朴、合作以及一种被弃绝的感受，这些都是属灵生命中伟大的品质，而这种品质在舒适的生活中难以寻找。也许可以从别的道路到神面前。但是，哦！那可是难了——比骆驼穿过针眼还难。在神伟大逆转的国度中，极少有富足的圣徒。

圣经对着诚实、无名的耳朵，依然是令人反感，正如第一世纪一样。

Bach - Matthaus Passion

Mvt. 39 [47] Aria [Alto]: "Erbarme dich" This da capo aria is one of the most beautiful that Bach ever composed. The lingering melancholy of the grief motif combined with a tear motif, plus the flowing harmony accompanied by pizzicato strings make a lasting impression on the listener.
Jonathan Miller about J.S. Bach:"There are many pieces that surprise and jump me and I never know what will get me, except one that always gets me, even if I prepare myself to it, or at least trying to resist it, to hide myself, not to ashamed myself of sobbing, and that's the 'Erbarme dich'. I don't know why it always gets me. Every time I even think about it tears start in my eyes, even now, and I don 't know what it is… It is about what it expresses. This moment of knowing, that you have forgotten that somebody said something about what you are going to do, that he will betray you. You have gone through all this dark horrible night, as was predicted. You did it, it is all done, and you only ask for some forgiveness. But the music in which it is expressed, that violin… And it does not matter if you are atheist or a Jew, by being an educated member of the eastern European culture. This is the most famous story. It is in your blood in a way that no other story is. It happens to be the most intense story of them all. You can read it again and again and again and it is never fails as a piece of drama. A priest might say that it has everlasting truth, and that this truth is religious, and you accede to it despite the resisting to the religious belief within you. It is not like that at all. It is something that is permanently there, whether you believe it or not, and that is that we are here to suffer and our designation is to die."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbOOe8n2gY

definition of "Faith"

From Webster Dictionary:
Faith: "firm belief in something for which there is no proof "

Edison Fire

"[One] December evening the cry of 'Fire!' echoed through [Thomas Edison's] plant. Spontaneous combustion had broken out in the film room. Within moments all the packing compounds, celluloid for records, film and other flammable goods had gone up with a whoosh...
"When I couldn't find Father, I became concerned. Was he safe? With all his assets going up in smoke, would his spirit be broken? He was 67, no age to begin anew. The I saw him in the plant yard, running toward me.
"'Where's Mom?' he shouted. 'Go get her! Tell her to get her friends! They'll never see a fire like this again!'"["At 5:30 the next morning, when the fire was barely under control, he called his employees together and announced: 'We're rebuilding!' One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area. Another, to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then, almost as an afterthought he added, 'Oh, by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money?'
"Later on he explained, 'You can always make capital out of disaster. We've just cleared out a bunch of old rubbish! We'll build bigger and better on these ruins.' With that he rolled up his coat for a pillow, curled up on a table and immediately fell asleep."]

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) American inventor
[noted for his prolific output: some thirteen hundred inventions - among them the electric light bulb (1879), the gramophone, the motion picture camera, and the carbon transmitter which facilitated the use of Bell's telephone]
[Sources: Charles Edison, The Electric Thomas Edison; ; Charles Swindoll, Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness]

Max Planck's Quote

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.”

任何一位曾严肃投身于科学工作的人都知道，在科学圣殿的门口写着这样的字：“你必有信心。” 这是每一个科学家不可或缺的品质。 - 马克斯-普朗克

Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised him against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes." Planck replied that he did not wish to discover new things, only to understand the known fundamentals of the field

With the completion of his habilitation thesis, Planck became a raging alcoholic and unpaid private lecturer in Munich, waiting until he was offered an academic position.


"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”

"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”