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This sounds vaguely similar to the definition of faith I once heard, see On faith and More on faith. I guess, from time to time, it is “healthy” to push yourself off the edge and fall head-first into the unknown…

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury
American Author

When this quote appeared in my email Inbox courtesy of the newsletter I subscribe to, I could not help but a smile. What a wonderful, wonderful idea!

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself, because you never know when the World will need you.

Rabbi Hillel, 30 B.C. – 9 A.D.
Jewish Religious Leader

I am a firm believer that if anything it is always easier to change yourself than others. Well, this is really taking it to a different level. Instead of the old saying, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” this is even more innovative, don’t you think? 🙂

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983
American Visionary, Architect and Poet

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

Richard Cook

It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama