Myst's Edge

Some Thoughts                                               Jul 2, 2010

This page contains various thoughts and ideas.  Some are mine, some are from friends, and some I just found and liked, but don't know who they started with.

Read these with an open mind, maybe ponder a bit, and then read it again.  Like many things on my website, I change this page often.

You must know you are lost before you know to look for your true path.  -  Ms Wendy

You are irreplaceable because you are you.  -  Tom Watanabe, Nikken

If you don't try to go too far, you'll never know just how far you can go - Ms Wendy

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Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.  The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.  He or she may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he or she simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, and live.  Chained by his or her certitudes, he or she is a slave:  he or she has forfeited freedom.  Only a person who risks is free.