PoPHILO

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Title: PoPHILO
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PoPHILO
Dommy
PRELUDE
THINKERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS DISPLAY AND CONVEY
THE
DEPTH OR SHALLOWNESS OF THEIR OWN AND SO
SHALL BE
PILLORIED OR ACCLAIMED BY THEIR OWN
THOUGHTS.
THERE IS IMMENSITY IN SPARSENESS AND SPARSENESS
IN
IMMENSITY.
PoPHILO
POPULAR PHILOSOPHY
Dommy
1.Better to be a willing servant to our mind than an unwilling slave to a
tyrant?s will.
2.The physical self and mind as willing servants to a worthy cause is a
form of devotion. The physical self and mind as unwilling slaves to a
despised cause is physical and spiritual violation.
3.Controlled freedom is externally induced refrain, discretion and
responsibility .It is only when we are given the sovereignty of freewill
do we realise our susceptibility and vulnerability.
4.If a soothsayer predicts negative events in our lives, use freewill to
avoid them. If a soothsayer predicts positive events in our lives ,use
freewill to fulfil them.

5.We should all generate our own knowledge not just absorb all that we
have learned. In order to attain our full intellectual potential ,we need
both the scholar and innovator in us.
6.When at last we realise how much we?ve lost when things have
passed, we have grasped both wisdom and folly.
7.A pessimist is plagued by dark vision. An optimist is embraced by
clear hope .A practical realist has both dark vision and clear hope .
8.Sweeping statements are uninsured ventures offering high risks of
swallowing our words and pride.
9.The course of one?s life is like a quest for a masterpiece. It hinges on
just the right intensity and apt strokes.
10.The best we thought we were at earlier times are sometimes not as
good as the best stage we are at now. Being at one?s best depends on
the time scale it is judged on. We peak differently at different times.
All our peak points are the summits of their own time.
11.A mortal fact here : Those who live within the century they were
born in and never get to see the next or those fortunate enough to see
the next.
12.Clich‚s that we cannot do without are not clich‚s but language
essentials.
13.Anxiety to the mind is akin to a fractured leg to the body.
14.To maintain constant levels of alertness, for the prolific mind ;
repose while for the sedentary mind ; stimulation.
15.Moderate amounts of guidelines in convention and etiquette ensures
that civilization behaves in civil fashion. Excessive amounts of
convention and etiquette converts life into ritualistic enslavement of
thought and action.
16.If you don?t know nothing you know something.

17.One insists because of truth. One insists because of prejudice.
18.Experience is when something becomes easier, more predictable
with less surprises with our ability to discern those worth cherishing
and those only worth during their fleeting hour.
19.Innovation may spell the demise of erstwhile techniques which were
innovations of yesteryears or just muffle them. The possibility of
revamps, revivals cannot be overruled entirely be they in similar,
related or different fields of interest. Nostalgia has its charms.
20.In order to be profound in thoughts the mind must be liberated from
the immediate reality of trifles.
21.The inexperienced and strong pour all their power to complete a
task.
The experienced and not as strong place their power where it?s needed.
22.There are those who are weak with strong will and those strong with
weak will.
23.Sharing is to be aware that we are not the absolute owner and to
attune ourselves to the pendulum cycle of holding and releasing.
24.Communication isn?t confined to mere expression. Communication
involves discretion and sensitivity as well to connotations and
subtleties.
25.A wizened head is not necessarily a wise