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"Whenever we try to propose a solution to a problem, we might try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, practice this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves." ~Karl...

Everything that makes cents; makes sense, but not everything that makes sense; will make cents ...

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money???" ~Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged~

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later..." ~Miles Davis~ "Drama is life without all the dull parts..." ~Alfred Hitchcock~ "I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough..." ~Albert Einstein~ "Action is the foundational key to all successes..." ~Pablo Picasso~

"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose rythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it..." ~Marcus Aurelius;verse 11, book 6, Meditations~

The market has abosolutely no obligation to harmonize with the desires of traders - it is they that must harmonize with hers...

"He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had...

For some, the weight of struggle is even more seductive than the lightness of flow -- for the flow, for most, is a leap into the dark... Seykota may just be right, in that we all get what we want...

"At the core of dualism, according to Zen, are words--just plain words. The use of words is inherently dualistic, since each word represents, quite obviously, a conceptual category. Therefore, a major part of Zen is the fight against reliance on words. To combat the use of words, one of the best...

"Slowly, the thinker went on his way and asked himself: What is it that you wanted to learn from teachings and teachers, and although they taught you much, what was it they could not teach you? And he thought: It was the Self, the character and nature of which I wished to learn. I wanted to rid...

What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth..." ~Niels Bohr~

This is a game of odds and probabilities. The numbers must work themselves out with time, alot of time. The inescapable laws of a probable outcome must be let to lead their own dance - I just focus on mine...

"Contentment that derives from knowing when to be content is eternal contentment." ~Lao-Tzu; Tao Te' Ching~ "Can you remain unmoving until the muddy water is clear and the right action arises of itself so?" ~Lao-Tzu; Tao Te' Ching~

"If everything depends on the archer's becoming purposeless and effacing himself in the event, then its outward realization must occur automatically, in no further need of the controlling or reflecting intelligence." Eugene Herrigel; Zen in the Art of Archery "This state, in which nothing...

Fine line between holding on 'too' tight and staying committed to letting a play work itself out --- this space between is where you'll find me...

"Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world" Anthony Burgess; The Wanting Seed "Art begins with craft and there is no art until the craft has been mastered..." ~Anthony Burgess~

If I could sell my trading 'experience' for what it has cost me -- my trading accounts would multiply five-fold...

"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order---and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order...'' Douglas Hofstadter; Godel, Escher & Bach

Anything written or quoted by me in this journal is nothing more than utterly useless verbiage...