Age
They asked Nasredding Hodja his age.
"Forty." He replied.
"But Hodja, when we asked you your age ten years ago, you gave the same answer!"
"That's my word, and I stick with it." Hodja said.
Nasreddin Hodja is pretty cool. You could look him up on wikipedia, but you shouldn't do that; instead click on this link and get to know him through stories. They're translated, just like the one I copied here, by Lale Eskicioglu.
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"The mystery of time is in ourselves. We can struggle to awaken to a new sense of time and to a new sense of ouselves and so get beyond what we think we are already and what we think we know already. But in every struggle of this nature we will inevitalbly realise more and more that it is o n e s e l f that is the mystery - that the whole thing is in oneself - in w h a t o n e t a k e s a s o n e s e l f. One will be forced more and more on to what is oneself. The mystic ocean of existence is not to be crossed as something out side ourselves. It is in oneself. A man must surely realise that it is invisibly in him. And when he really touches n o w, he will know that all his lives, lived and unlived, meet here, beyond all conditions of passing time and that he has in himself all that is this n o w, which, if he fails to discover will be always replaced by the stream of passing time. Realising what it would mean to hold n o w, he will catch a glimpse of the meaning of that strange phrase in the 'Wisdom of Solomon': 'He, perfected in a short time, fulfilled a long time.'"
Maurice Nicoll, Living Time and the Integration of the Life
I feel like a dumbass but I don't get it... uhh... LOL but thanks for spamming on my blog and finding me from 20sb. I'm following now and promise to have more stimulating and intelligent comments in the future.
Ah, age is just a number. Its how we live life that matters! ;)
I didn't know who Nasredding Hodja was and I looked him up because of you! Thanks for the information.
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Age is relative to the culture you live in and the era that culture exists in. We will all grow older and eventually die....that is just a fact, but it is how we live and Who we live for that will make the difference in the here and now
I remember that guy!
I even used to have a book or two with his turban-ed picture on the front when I was younger. :P.
And I agree with Yileen :).
Nas :)
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