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"Every time I tried to display my innermost desires – a wish to be morally good – I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to base desires I was praised and encouraged." Tolstoy in Confessions
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One thing that stands
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Cor 13:4-8, &13
Labels: Love and Friendship
I wish
A lot of times I wish for someone to just say this. "I will just shut up and give you a hug."
Labels: Christian Living, Love and Friendship
Papa
After the major row with Papa yesterday, questions I asked myself. Am I self-righteous? Am I delusional? Am I devoid of love? Am I judgemental? Am I selfish?. I felt that ever since I converted, things just turned out sour and unhappy between me and Pa. The remembered oaths I ejaculated yesterday make me cringe. How could I promise to comply to him just for the sake of complying? I used to genuinely proclaim that I fret nothing except Papa, that I care for nothing in comparison with Papa, that I love him better than myself. that, no! I should never love anybody better than Papa. My affection for him was the chief sentiment in my heart. I trusted him simply because he was my Pa and Pa did not tell falsehoods. Pa has been so good. My thoughts and feelings regarding this matter are in entangled mass. I do not know anymore what is false and what is true.
Labels: Christian Living, Love and Friendship
Losing the dearest
I can bear to lose anything from this life. But how can I with my own Papa?
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Losing and gaining
Compromise is not an option. The truth was, I was unwilling to stand alone. Every man is called separately, and must follow alone. But I was frightened of solitude, afraid to lose their devoted affection. I have lost so many, those I stubbornly tried to hold on and they went. But God help me. As I pursue ones that last. And as He gives them. May this be my only cry, that God's children will find God, whatever the cost is.
Labels: Christian Living
Sweetness
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Reconciled
Labels: Christian Living, Love and Friendship
First Step
Reading 'Real Love', Greg Baer, M.D currently. Pray that I could see the visions He allows me to see through His eyes. Thanks to I.S too. =)
Labels: Love and Friendship
Do
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Sovereignity and Freewill
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Know by faith
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Gratitude
For going this far, for taking me from whatever stage I am, I thank God for Y.R.
Labels: Love and Friendship
Discipleship
Today I am making a more concrete and real step as a believer. Grateful for Y.R. for willing to be a mentor.
Labels: Love and Friendship
Experience
The question is on the balance between the free, open-ended and expressive work, and the attention to the acquisition of knowlegde, discipline and experience.
Who to be loved
"You are a dog in a manger, Cathy. You desire no one to be loved but yourself." Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights
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Envy
"Edgar is sulky, because I'm glad of a thing that does not interest him. He affirmed that I was cruel and selfish for wishing to talk when he was so sick and sleepy. He always contrives to be sick at the least cross! I gave a few commendation to Healthcliff, and he, either for a head-ache or a pang of envy, began to cry. It is human nature. But does it not show great weakness?" Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights
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Learning
"..not exactly from seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end, but I have gone through sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than one could fancy." Nelly in Wuthering Heights.
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Thinking
Genuine thinking is always a process possessing direction. What happens when, now and then, thinking forges ahead?
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A need
Design is action to change in some way. Decisions cannot be avoided or even delayed without likelihood of unfortunate consequences. A designer has no liberties to concentrate exclusively on issues which seem most attractive, and so the central skill is the ability to rapidly become fascinated by problems previously unheard of. It is to get on and make the best out of a bad job - often a matter of compromise on the basis of inadequate information and yet, no excuse for mistakes or failures on those grounds.
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Prescriptive
Designers do not deal with questions of what is, how, and why, but rather with what might be, could be, and should be. Seen to create the future, the process deserves not just ethical, but also moral scrunity.
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Inevitably subjective
Complete objectivity demands dispassionate detachment. Designers being human beings find it hard to remain either dispassionate or detached about their work. Indeed designers are often aggressively defensive and possessive about their solutions.
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Solving and finding problems
Problems and solutions emerge together rather than one following logically upon the other. The process is thus less linear but rather more argumentative. Designers create problems as they find solutions.
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Imperfection
Design invariably involves compromise. Just how trade-offs and compromises are made remains a matter of skilled judgement. There are thus no optimal solutions and the best test of most design is still to wait, to subject it to the test of time. Design solutions can never be perfect, and they are often more criticised than created. Designers must accept that they will almost invariably appear wrong in some ways to some people.
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Statement
The short term response to an uncertain future is to build in obsolescence.
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Acts
"Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." A.F.
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Fool
Foolishness. This parting is not for forever.
Labels: Love and Friendship
Learning
"I will say, let the years instruct you. This is to hope and yet not wish, to believe and yet not eagerly grasping or searching, to wait and yet not to be patiently anticipating, to love and yet not despair. Not apathy, nor languor. This, maybe, is contentment. Maybe. But let the years instruct me. We are not beyond our own time or our wisdom." L.R.
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End of design
Part of the definition of a design problem is the level of detail which requires attention. How then do we find the end of a design problem? Is it not possible to go on involved in more and more detail? Indeed this is so, there is no natural end to the process. There is no way getting beyond doubt when a problem has been solved. Designers simply stop designing either when they run out of time or when, in their judgement, it is not worth pursuing the matter further.
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Lost
I became more and more anxious lest I be trapped in a process which I did not fully understand and ultimately led without a choice to a conclusion which I would know in my heart of hearts I did not agree with.
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Design is an act of faith
Design is the performing of a very complicated act of faith. Designers discover much more about the problem as they critically evaluate their own solutions. It seems that the next minute they would discover a solution. Yet it is clear to both of them that the end was still far, far off, and that the hardest and most complicated part is only just the beginning.
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Events
"Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice." Louis B. Salomon
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Fancy
I have tired of life, likely. But I could fancy a love for life in words almost possible. =P
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Pity
"A pity, that one can be so hard to please. So many friends, and so few cares. Yet can't make self - content!" Nelly in Wuthering Heights
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Heart knows
"...yet you have not told me whether I'm right."
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Originality
"There is, it seems to us, at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsified, for the pattern itself is new in every moment, and every moment is a new and shocking, valuation of all we have been." T S Elliot in East Coker
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Method
"She can't do Substraction," said the White Queen. "Can you do a Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?" "I suppose - Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her, "Bread-and-butter ofcourse." Lewis Carroll in Alice through the Looking Glass
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A good heart
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, ...a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly." Nelly in Wuthering Heights
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