"a caterpillar doesn't just grow into a butterfly. a caterpillar must undergo metamorphosis, and a cocoon is where a caterpillar risks it all: enters total chaos, undergoes total rebuilding, and is born to a new way of living. only in taking the risk of entering that inert cocoon can the caterpillar go from dormancy to potency, from ugliness to beauty."

Sunday, February 06, 2005

true or false?

"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

as a result of answering a forwarded-via-email character test, i got this:


hmmm...

8 comments:

  1. nice quote. where was it from??

    originally posted on 02.06.05 - 5:40 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  2. i really searched for it. some sources say the author is unknown. others credit it to lao tse. others say tao te ching. and since i don't know whether both lao tse and tao te ching refer to the sage lao tzu, i decided not to write the author's name and presented it as a quote still.

    originally posted on 02.06.05 - 6:08 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  3. hi caterpillartalk!

    you may want to take a look at this:

    http://www.yakrider.com/Tao/laotzu.htm

    The author is Lao Tzu (Lao Tse). He wrote "Tao Te Ching" (Book of The Way and its Power) duirng the Chou dynasty, some 2600 years ago.

    originally posted on 02.07.05 - 2:14 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  4. ahhhh... enlightenment! i did know that lao tse's lao tzu, but i didn't know about tao te ching being the title of his book.

    thanks, tsutsugamushi!

    originally posted on02.07.05 - 2:51 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  5. ur welcome caterpillartalk!

    what a boring job! what a boring day!
    what a boring life!

    i hope i can take up my post grad na. btw, what are you taking up sa master's?

    originally posted on 02.07.05 - 4:57 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  6. physics.

    originally posted on 02.07.05 - 6:44 pm using Haloscan comment board

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  7. yeah, tao te ching (can also be dao de jing) is a book. it's where tao chia (philosophical taoism) is based. it's very interesting and makabuang! read it, val!

    originally posted on 02.08.05 - 11:17 am using Haloscan comment board

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  8. hala, makabuang? sure, i will!

    originally posted on 02.08.05 - 11:46 am using Haloscan comment board

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