The love course of life shines in the corner of life obscurely like leisurely clouds, I have a most valuable gift to present you, which is my pure heart. Take pride, the young eagle soaring across the ocean, as you possess a heart like the blue sky and will weave in persistent hope and pursuit a magnificently bright future. All things are different from one another. Try to understand him if you feel like doing so. He will move forward according to his own circumstances. If I have something to do with him, then indeed I shall try to understand him. What sort of person he is, why does he say so, what is his attitude, how does he speak? I shall try to know all that. Then only shall I be able to deal with him. As soon as you accept that as it is, your ego disappears then and there.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 11

Thank you for giving me wind and light for my sailing at the black night. My boat of life goes through long night and wave because of you. I will present you a special gift, my love for you is beyond words and you serve every beautiful thing. Unity with the other means to see, understand, and feel the other as he is. Understanding engenders empathy, empathy calls forth love and unity. When you see other, you are free from the other. Does there appear to be a contradiction here? When I see that he is just he, how do I get free from him? How can I keep him, as well as get free from him? You get free from him when you say, he is. Why? Because you have no expectations toward him!  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 11

You use your heart and blood to irrigate the seedlings. There are brilliance of exotic flowers and rare herbs you fostered in gardens. I wish you have a happy, joyous and proud life every day. Try simply to understand that he is he. This effort to understand, the feeling that I have understood, gives you freedom from him. My friend, your voice still lingers in my heart like the murmur of the seawater wafting in the silence of an audience of a pine forest. In my heart, there is a secret, it is contained in only four words—I miss you sorely. One is free from him by understanding what he is. Why? Freedom from whom? From my own mental creation, from the relationship that I have forged in my mind with him. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 11

When we try to fit others into our standards or resist how they are, we actually contract and harden the boundaries of the separate self at the same time. We become smaller ourselves. However, the act of appreciating the differentness of others, letting then be as they are, literally loosens and dissolves the boundaries that keep us separate at the same time. The feeling of being not separate emerges in the heart only by accepting what is different. In this way, we come to know others in their suchness, and are at-one with them. Unity, or nonseparateness, then, does not come about through transcending the difference between self and other, but through fully allowing the other’s differentness—which naturally undermines self-centeredness.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 11

You do nothing but swindle the public and prey upon the pockets of the sick. Your safety is due to the fact that your gibberish is unintelligible to the public, who fancy that it must have meaning, and the consequence is that no one comes near you without being cheated. Your art does not consist in curing the sick, but in worming yourself into the favor of the rich, in swindling the poor, and in gaining admittance to the kitchens of the noblemen of the country. You live upon imposture, and the assistance and abetment of the legal profession enables you to carry on your impostures, and to evade punishment by the law. You poison the people and ruin their health; you are sworn to use diligence in your art; but how could you do so, as you possess no art, and all your boasted science is nothing but an invention to cheat and deceive?  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 11

You do not spare the sick; how could I expect that you would respect me, while I am cutting down your income by exposing your pretension and ignorance to the public? One goes to the doctor’s office, undergoes treatment, and returns to the World facing it exactly as before has missed an opportunity to face the World with soul. It reminds one very much of the worship of the golden calf when one sees the people throng around that man simply because he is rich. That he is made so much of on account of his wealth is not the worst part. You do not emphasize enough the fact that his ignorance is forgiven on account of his wealth. He has a high power lawyer from the city. Thus, while the double meaning would be retained, the displacement-wit would be eliminated.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 11

The answer is given from the viewpoint of a rich man. The beggar acts as if it were his own money that he was willing to sacrifice for his health, as if money and health concerned the same person. The officer who gives the artilleryman, Ryan, the nonsensical advice pretends to be stupid in order to show Ryan how unfair he is acting. He imitates Ryan as if to say, “I will now give you some advice which is exactly as smart as you are.” He enters into Ryan’s game and makes him conscious of it by making it the basis of a proposition which meet with Ryan’s wishes, for if Ryan owned a cannon and took up the art of warfare on his own account, of what advantage would his intelligence and ambition be to him? #RyanPhillippe 7 of 11

You have no right to reproach me. How could you be so foolish as to leave your son in a house where he must live in the constant companionship of a young man? As if it were possible for a stranger to be responsible for the chastity of a scholar under such circumstances! I know, Ryan, that you are an intelligent business man, but I must tell you that you are very stupid if you do not realize that one cannot act in the army as one does in business, where each one is out for himself and competes with the other. Military service demands subordination and co-operation. Did I say something foolish? It is remarkable what mortal hands can accomplish. How beautifully everything is arranged by nature.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 11

A gentleman entered a shop and ordered a fancy cake, which, however, he soon returned, asking for some liqueur in its stead. He drank the liqueur, and was about to leave without paying for it. The shopkeeper held him back. “What do you want me of?” he asked. “Please pay for the liqueur,” said the shopkeeper. “But I have given you the fancy cake for liqueur.” “Yes, but you have not paid for that either.” “Well, neither have I eaten it.” This little story also bears the semblance of logic which we already know as the suitable façade for faulty thinking. The error, obviously, lies in the fact that the cunning customer established a connection between the return of the fancy cake and its exchange for the liqueur, a connection, which really does not exist. The state of affairs may be divided into two processes which, as far as the shopkeeper is concerned, are independent of each other. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 11

While at the dinner, Ryan first took the fancy cake and returned it, so that he owes nothing for it. He then took the liqueur, for which he owes money. One might say that the customer uses the relation “for it” in a double sense, or, to speak more correctly, by means of a double sense, he forms a relation which does not hold in reality. A similar nonsense technique results when the joke sims to maintain a connection which seems to be removed through the special conditions of its content. A joke of this sort is: “Is this the place where Duke of Wellington spoke these words?” “Yes, this is the place; but he never spoke those words.” The opportunity now presents itself for making a not unimportant confession.  #RyanPhillippe 10 of 11

We are here busying ourselves with an investigation of technique of wit by means of examples, and we ought to be sure that the examples which we have selected are really true witticisms. The facts are, however, the in a series of cases, we fall into doubt as to whether or not the example in question may be called a joke. We have no criterion at our disposal before investigation itself furnishes one. Usage of language is unreliable and is itself in need of examination for its authority. To decide the question, we can rely on nothing else but a certain “feeling,” which we may interpret by saying that in our judgment, the decision follows certain criteria which are not yet accessible to our knowledge. We shall naturally not appeal to this “feeling” for substantial proof.  In the case of the last-mentioned example, we cannot help doubting whether we may present it as a witticism, as a sophistical witticism, or merely as a sophism. The fact is that we do not yet know wherein the character of wit lies. #RyanPhillippe 11 of 11