“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all”

~Abraham Lincoln

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Borrowing Brilliance

As it turns out, all ideas are not original. Inspiration always come from someone or something.

I chanced upon this photo that I took also last February.

I still remember this because it was in Subic. We woke up very early to see the Hot Air Balloon for the first time.

When we got there the sun is just rising. I noticed a local plant glowing in the sun. I thought this would be nice for my stock photo collection. I went down on my belly to get a nice composition. Its pretty hard to focus on the subject because of the intense reflection of the sun, but I got a nice shot after some manual adjustments.

As I look at it again, I remember a story from my One Minute Wisdom book by Anthony De Mello.  It’s one of my favorites:

PRESENCE

” Where shall I look for Enlightenment?”

“Here.”

“When will it happen?”

“It is happening right now.”

“Then why don’t I experience it?”

“Because you do not look.”

“What should I look for?”

“Nothing. Just look.”

“At what?”

“Anything your eyes alight upon.”

“Must I look in a special kind of way?”

“No. The ordinary way will do.”

“But don’t I always look the ordinary way?”

“No.”

“Why ever not?”

“Because to look you must be here. You’re mostly somewhere else.”

Be blessed,

Marvin

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”.

~Richard Buckminster Fuller

Marvin