If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Taos gift) if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop to know when you can get no further by your own action this is the right beginning!
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days…. What you can do or think you can do begin it. For boldness has magic power and genius in it.
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest active effort and good results will inevitably follow.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.
As long as there is one upright man as long as there is one compassionate woman the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.
Still ending and beginning still.
A mans worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
Well begun is half done.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Well done is quickly done.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Taos gift) if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop to know when you can get no further by your own action this is the right beginning!
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
What we call the beginning Is often the end And to make an end Is to make a new beginning. The end is where we start from.
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Well done is twice done.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days…. What you can do or think you can do begin it. For boldness has magic power and genius in it.
When the iron is hot strike.
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest active effort and good results will inevitably follow.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.’08-02-2010
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
The one thing worse than a quitter is the one who is afraid to begin.
As long as there is one upright man as long as there is one compassionate woman the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
The man who moved the mountain began by carrying away small stones.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.