Scales fall from one’s eyes. / Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. – Bible: “The Acts of the Apostles” Chapter 9:18 / (Saul = Saint Paul) (Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech… More »
Utilizing one’s experience of former days. (Image by Pexels from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John Augustus Shedd (1859 – 1928) (Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: The Tao [Way] that can be followed is not the eternal Tao [Way]. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth, while naming is the origin of the myriad things. Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery; ever desiring, you see the manifestations. These two are the same--when they appear--they are named differently.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nature-4283139_640-200x133.jpg)
The Tao [Way] that can be followed is not the eternal Tao [Way]. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth, while naming is the origin of the… More »
There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. – Dante (Alighieri) (1265 – 1321) (Image by Waltteri Paulaharju from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K. [Hermann Kotzschmar] Curtis (1850 – 1933) (Image by Ryan McGuire… More »
The style is the man himself. – Georges-Louis Leclerc， Comte de Buffon (1707 – 88): Discourse on Style (Image by rawpixel from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Old garden lake! / The frog thy depths doth seek, / And sleeping echoes wake. // – Matsuo Bashô [Bashō] (1644 – 94); trans. by Hidesaburo Saito [斎藤秀三郎] (1866 – 1929) (Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound… More »
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson (1901 – 99) (Image by Felix Lichtenfeld from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things. – Abraham Cowley (1618 – 67) (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
