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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448578" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Moments</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all the Graces praised<br>least in the West<br>but better understood in the East</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is that of the ability<br>to Endure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not passivity, <br>but deep understanding given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Western view is that all is chard<br>and moments are all that matter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But incidents and moment-pieces<br>are not lives or even a day given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But enduring each moment<br>is better done <br>from understanding the whole<br>from which the moment comes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moments, the Easterners say<br>are not aggregated<br>to be taken together to make a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rather a day is given as a whole<br>but in the West we pluck moments stray<br>and munch them according to our appetites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the East says each day the sun does not rise to greet a new moment; <br>the Sun inaugurates a New Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if this moment is now overwhelming<br>it means you missed the Sun-Rise Last<br>and will miss the Sun-Rise Next<br>because you latched onto a stray moment<br>which is but a chard of the whole day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, the wisdom here, <br>at least I think, <br>says<br>Live not for the moment<br>for but the whole day<br>there is where salvation, <br>hope, love, and peace lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if my life-goal is moment placed<br>there can be no peace<br>only schizophrenia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can I, for example, change my views<br>moment to moment<br>becoming a moment to moment changeling; <br>if I do, I drive myself crazy; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will only know what I truly believe<br>if I am willing to endure<br>each moment to see what the whole day brings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If life is a marching of days<br>it's is only clear sometimes<br>what it all means<br>or meant<br>at life's conclusive end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humm, <br>Let's us then not lose heart<br>and leave the movie <br>before the end or before the movie<br>even starts; <br>lean back<br>my Dad used to say<br>enjoy each scene<br>but don't mistake each scene<br>for the very very end; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or for that matter, <br>each bad moment<br>as the whole day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If whole societies adopt the Moment View<br>then you have America; <br>whip fast idolotries changing from moment to moment<br>with each fashion change, the consumer religion<br>and all crave<br>living for the moment's thrill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Contrast that to China say<br>where people save 20% of what they earn<br>and don't overspend<br>planning to endure, not the moment's whim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America used to be that way.<br>I can still hear my Grandmother say<br>a penny saved is a penny earned.<br>So what happened to us along the way; <br>this generation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humm<br>I think I will pause for a moment<br>and in doing so<br>lose my way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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least in the West
but better understood in the East

is that of the ability
to Endure.

Not passivity, 
but deep understanding given.

The Western view is that all is chard
and moments are all that matter.

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