Study Notes Dated : 2001-01-01
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1:
How should success be measured? And by that measurement, who is the most successful
person you know?
Answer :
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price
of a large turbot for it?
Question 2:
What is the fanciest restaurant you have eaten at?
Answer :
Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor.
Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
Question 3:
What holidays have been over-commercialized?
Answer :
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
Question 4:
Were you the class clown or teacher's pet?
Answer :
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Question 5:
What do you like to do in the spring?
Answer :
Suddenly it came to me, as a kind of new light, that I would no longer resist and
struggle; I would accept the unavoidable. If it was in the nature of my disease,
what else that was wise could I do? At first the torment, ravaging unrestrained,
seemed even worse than before. It consumed me utterly. But I had a glimmering sense
that I was at least playing a voluntary part in my own destiny; that, somehow, I
was substituting reason for blind, involuntary, fear-driven resistance. This effort
I continued through the greater part of one terrible night, failing often, unable
to yield completely, driven by red-hot scourges into the old resistances. At dawn,
in spite of the best medication the doctors knew, I was exhausted, but I began to
feel that I was on the way toward what might be, for me, a new method. This I
practiced faithfully and with increasing confidence for some time. I no longer
resisted the inevitable! I am not sure that there was a great decrease in the
actual physical suffering; I do know that the period of the paroxysm was reduced,
since resistance seemed merely to prolong it. But the great reward was in the mind:
in my own ability to command myself in the face of such a catastrophe; to preserve
my equanimity; to rest securely upon reason when panic might so easily overwhelm
me. I had moments in the midst of such paroxysms during the earlier nights when I
was so secure in mind, so tranquil, that I felt it did not much matter what
happened to my body. Nothing could touch me.
Question 6:
What's the best show currently on TV?
Answer :
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the
ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
Question 7:
What is your favorite day of the week?
Answer :
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political
world as storms in the physical.
Question 8:
What is the most comfortable piece of clothing you own?
Answer :
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
Question 9:
You find a remote that can rewind, fast forward, stop, and start time. What do you
do with it?
Answer :
Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their
hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will
guide them toward goodness.
Question 10:
Where is the most awe-inspiring place you have been?
Answer :
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
