----------------------------------------------------------------- Facing the worst -- until laughter burst. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 101 Make Copies & Distribute ! 1999 -- 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------- furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no otono Shizukasa ya Stille...! iwa ni shimi-iru Tief bohrt sich in den Fels semi no koe Das Sirren der Zikaden... Basho (Matsuo Munefusa, 1644-1694) Stille the stillness - in den Felsen dringend seeping into rock Zikadenzirpen circada's screech (M.Ueda) Guenter Wohlfahrt "Zen und Haiku" (reclam) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 102 http://wda.tradivarium.at/words2.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer in weltlichen Angelegenheiten ein Hindernis fuer seine UEbung sieht, weiss nur, dass es keinen Weg in weltlichen Dingen gibt, waehrend sier zugleich verkennt, dass es so etwas wie weltliche Dinge, die vom Weg unterschieden werden koennten, nicht gibt. Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253): Shobogenzo Bemuehe dich um eine Gesinnung, die danach strebt, die Quelle der Guete auf dem Berg der Guete zu mehren. -- Dogen ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 103 edited by wda@nachhaltig.at ----------------------------------------------------------------- Besuchen wollt' ich die Blueten - schon dunkelt es zwischen den Baeumen; FUJIWARA MASATSUNE Da, unerwartet, der Mond (1170-1221) ueber der Berge Gipfel! Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 104 Korrekturen, Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare willommen! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wie vieler Jahre Fruehlinge haben das Herz mir bluten lassen. FUJIWARA TOSHINARI Habt doch Mitgefuehl mit mir, (1114-1204) Kirschblueten von Yoshino! Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%%105 text-only. fixed-font-formatted. tanka: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die gestern ich sah, die Menschen: was ist mit ihnen? so fragt man erstaunt. Erzbischof Ji'en Daisojo Nun, einer endlos langen Nacht (1155-1225) Traum hat uns umfangen. Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 106 haiku: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Pflumenbluetenzweig gibt seinen Duft dem, der ihn brach. Chiyo-ni (?1707-1775) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 107 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Asagao ni Von der Winde Oh die Winde! tsurube torarete des Zieheimers beraubt: des Zieheimers beraubt morai-mizu. geschenktes Wasser. borge ich Wasser. Eine bluehende Winde hat sich In Windenranken verstrickt um meinen Brunneneimer gerankt. der Brunneneimer. Ich schoepfe das Wasser beim Nachbarn. Drum gib mir Wasser! Frau Kaga no Chiyo (?1702-1774) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 108 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Trichterwinde im hohen Foehrenwipfel mit einer Bluete Shiki (1866-1902) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 109 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Im Mondlicht sehen die Vogelscheuchen wie Menschen aus: erbarmenswert. Shiki (1866-1902) Nunmehr sehen auch im Sonnenlicht die Vogelscheuchen wie Menschen aus: erbarmenswert. wda (2011) Wo ich lebe gibt's Vogelscheuchen Chasei (1777-1846) mehr als Menschen. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 110 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ein Bluetenblatt, das zurueckkehrt an seinen Zweig? - Ein Schmetterling! Als ob zum Zweige Im Fall die Bluete heimkehrt ... Es ist ein Falter! -- Arakida Moritake 1473-1549 (Shinto Priester) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 111 ==================================================== A VIDA E CURTA. A MORTE E CERTA. ==================================================== %%% 112 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wann soll er hoffen, wann soll er etwa jammern, wo doch die Dinge der Zukunft unbekannt sind dem Menschen, der vergaenglich ! Moench SAIGYO Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 113 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Katze hat geschlafen. Sie streckt sich, gaehnt und geht auf Liebe aus. -- Issa, Kobayashi Yataro 1763-1827 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 114 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Langsam laesst sie das Kleid von ihren blassen Bruesten sinken. Ganz langsam. unbekannter Dichter, Japan 18.Jhdt. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 115 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In Windenblueten trat heute mir vor Augen --Arakida Moritake 1473-1549 das eigene Leben. Shinto Priester ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 116 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Windenbluete ging ganz gelassen auf im Winde morgens. Domei ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 117 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NO CONCESSIONS FOR STATEMENTS AND CONFESSIONS. ERSATZ -- NEIN DANKE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 118 ----------------------------------------------------------------- MEME n. Information (idea, attitude, song, notion, concept, image, technique, belief, ...) lodging in our minds and capable of changing us. 20th c. ~ "mental gene" NOT in my 1994 Collins nor in my 2001 Pons MEME WARFARE -- World War III is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. -- H. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 119 ----------------------------------------------------------------- E A T F A S T -- D I E Y O U N G ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 120 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To become an adept it is necessary to balance each thought and each motion with it's opposite. A. Crowley (1875-1947) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 121 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ein ehrlicher Mensch kann hier kaum ein paar Saetze von sich geben, ohne sich Feinde zu machen. -- Hermann Hesse (1877, Calw/Wuerttemberg - 1962) You cannnot even utter a few honest sentences here without making enemies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 122 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Radwechsel: Ich sitze am Strassenhang. Der Fahrer wechselt das Rad. Ich bin nicht gern, wo ich herkomme. Ich bin nicht gern, wo ich hinfahre. Warum sehe ich den Radwechsel mit Ungeduld? Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 123 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Eines Tages wird es gleichgueltig sein, ob wir gluecklich oder ungluecklich sind, weil wir fuer keines von beiden Zeit haben. One of these days it won't matter whether we are happy or sad, because we won't have time to be/feel one or the other. (my tentative transl.) Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams (1912-1983) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 124 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 125 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A snowflake is one of the most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! snowflakes-screensaver: 1.178.774 B win32-exe http://members.aon.at/maulehla/snowfl.exe ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 126 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The only time you cannot afford to fail is the last time you try. Charles Kettering ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 127 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 128 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Be braver. -- You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 129 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 130 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A thousand mile journey begins with the first step. Migthy rivers can easily be leaped at their source. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 131 words2.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare: (around 1600) To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. -- Hamlet II.2 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naugthy world. -- The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice V.1 90 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 132 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Gagehot Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out ?! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 133 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything at all. Edward John Phelps ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 134 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 135 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Be grateful for luck, but don't depend on it! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 136 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Always be determined to make a difference. The world is changed by the power of individuals. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 137 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DON'T FIND FAULT, FIND A REMEDY ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 138 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Better to face a danger once than be always in fear. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -- Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To err is human. But to really foul things up requires a computer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- No man is free who cannot control himself. -- Pythagoras ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- The reward of suffering is experience. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- PRACTISE RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS AND ACTS OF SENSELESS BEAUTY ! No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop (620-564 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 150 ------------------------------------------------------------------ to be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting. -- e.e. cummings (1894-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 151 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eines Tages wird es gleichgueltig sein, ob wir gluecklich oder ungluecklich sind, weil wir fuer keines von beiden Zeit haben. -- Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams (1912-1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 152 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not crime. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 153 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WAR IS PEACE ! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY ! IGNORANCE IS BLISS ! STAYING APART KEEPS US TOGETHER ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 154 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE mehr und mehr verdienen fuer ein besseres leben und es es dabei mehr und mehr verlieren -- h. seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg.43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE Manche Tierarten sind noch nicht so vom Aussterben bedroht, um sie davor zu schuetzen dass die es bald werden. ein "text zum pfluecken" helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg.43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE und ohne werbung wussten sie nicht wie sie leben muessen was sie denken sollen wen sie waehlen wollen sie lebten - dachten - waehlten so wie es ihnen gezeigt wurde und als es wieder soweit war merkten sie keinen unterschied helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wer sich oft fuegt ueber den wird immer oefter verfuegt. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wenn alle das machen das alle machen kann es wieder passieren dass einer mit allen alles macht helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE Die besten Sklaven sind die die sich selber welche halten duerfen. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ die schlimmsten sklavenhalter die effektivsten sklavenhalter sind die sind die die ihre sklaven die ihre sklaven sklaven halten lassen sklaven halten lassen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wer will schon BESSERUNG des systems solange er sich BESSERN darf/kann im system helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ solange alle allen alles nachmachen machen einige allen alles vor helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ je mehr (wieder) die waffen sprechen umsomehr koennen viele dem entsprechen das sie am besten koennen weil sie sonst nichts koennen gewalttaetig sein helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1404. Denk-Zettel Immer mehr Leute verschulden sich. Immer mehr verdienen daran die Banken. So haben die einen ohne zu arbeiten immer mehr Geld, waehrend die anderen immer mehr arbeiten und doch immer mehr neue Schulden machen, weil die Zinsen der alten immer mehr werden. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ nur denen die nicht allen alles nachmachen kann keiner etwas vormachen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wenn alle das machen das alle machen bleibt niemand der sie davor warnt helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wieder sind viele nachgewachsen und dressiert fuers naechste grosse toeten und getoetet werden helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE sie verhalten sich ruhig um in ruhe leben zu koennen und werden dann so (be)ruhig(t) dass sie nichts mehr vom leben spueren helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Da geht uns Stueck fuer Stueck verloren. Da fehlt uns bald soviel, dass wir unfaehig werden, zu erkennen, wieviel uns fehlt. Nur denen die merken, dass immer mehr fehlt, fehlt noch nicht alles. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wird man immer wohlhabender will man ausser weiterem wohl wohl nichts haben helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ weil alle das machen das alle machen macht man es auch und wird bald so wie alle anderen denen es nicht gelingt etwas eigenes zu machen so ist dafuer gesorgt das alles mit allen gemacht werden kann helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ je mehr gewalt man uns zeigt umso gewalttaetiger zeigen wir uns je mehr moeglichkeiten gewalt auszuueben umso mehr folgen verursacht sie je mehr gewalt bewirkt umso mehr bewirkt sie weitere gewalt je mehr waffen umso mehr gebrauch davon so bewaffnen sich immer mehr immer mehr so fuehlen sich immer mehr immer mehr im recht waffen zu gebrauchen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dream as if you'd live forever Live as if you'll die today ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 175 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -- Gladys Browyn Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. -- Wislawa Szymborska (*1923) Nobel Prize for Literature-Poetry 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Goals that are not written down are just wishes. A goal without a plan is merely a wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1.? / 2.: DJ anarcho..violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. Marcus Aurelius (161-180) I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -- Martha Washington ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% from http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~kshaul/quotes4.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. -- Frank Tyger ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ People change and forget to tell each other. -- Lillian Hellman ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. -- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. -- Anne Frank (1929-1945) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Our enemies are innovative and resouceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. -- G. W. Bush (POTUS 2001-2009) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at56A5eg3vs ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ================================================================== What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. -- Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. -- Mary Pickford (1892-1979) Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The best things in life aren't things. Art Buchwald ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% =================================================================== To know others is wisdom; to know oneself is enlightenment. Who knows others is clever; Who knows hirself has discernment. Tao Te Ching XXXIII ================================================================== %%% =================================================================== Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength. SHe who knows sHe has enough is rich... To die but not to perish is to be eternally present. Tao Te Ching, 33 ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. Samurai maxim ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Silence. We need to find God, and sHe cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Nobel peace prize 1979) A Gift for God, "Willing Slaves to the Will of God." (1975) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ****************************************************************** When the sun rises, I go to work, when the sun goes down, I take my rest I dig the well from which I drink I farm the soil that yields my food I share creation. Kings can do no more. Ancient Chinese Saying ****************************************************************** %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (1890-1977) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you'll get the best. Begin to live as you wish to live. Unknown It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% from http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~kshaul/quotes4.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Faust: Wie das Geklirr der Spaten mich ergetzt! ... Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, Dies ist der Weisheit letzter Schluss: Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, Der taeglich sie erobern muss. Und so verbringt, umgeben von Gefahr, Hier Kindheit, Mann und Greis sein tuechtig Jahr. Solch ein Gewimmel moecht ich sehn, Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn. Zum Augenblicke duerft ich sagen: >> Verweile doch, du bist so schoen! Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdentagen Nicht in Aeonen untergehn.-- << Im Vorgefuehl von solch hohem Glueck Geniess ich jetzt den hoechsten Augenblick. He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 198 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. NOW. Joan Baez (*1941) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 199 edited by wda@nachhaltig.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 200 McCopies & D.Stribute ! 1999-08-17 corr. 2001-09-09