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Convincing others
is much more ease
than convincing ourselves-
we are hard to please
10h · 31
A basic truth
Every major endeavour
is somehow impeded
by one's self-created
psychological barrier
I'm smarter
than no one
only this I'll say:
two words I avoid-
they are ' I can't'
10h · 30
The sanity of Love
Love is never
an imposition:
it has no right
over any person
even the dearest
and most-loved:
it should hold none
to ransom
10h · 37
Life: its essence
Life is not
about winning
but infinitely
more important
is your self-realising
More of life
I celebrated
when I was rejected:
it showed me my real worth
1d · 67
Be louder !
Let your 'no'
be louder
than your 'yes'-
always be so!
1d · 41
You and I
I'm glad
me you dislike
you're entitled
to your view
and you might
be right
1d · 256
The tragedy of man
Man creates
just to later destroy:
he's passion
not reason-
in the end
his own self
he breaks
Every love
(a metaphor
unheard of before)
is its own thermometer
like none other
2d · 56
Are you one?
Are you a bell verily
that is set to ring
in fixed intervals only?
Please tell me
2d · 53
A wish
A wish
is a need-
yes, indeed
2d · 55
Life's ABC
You can't really help others
if you're in need of your self
Mark Manson is the author of
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F...K' 2016, Harper Collins)


   HELLO, Mark


   I enjoyed your THE SUBTLE ART..

  First of all, I am much enamoured of the writings of Ernest Becker whose
  THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEANING I read nearly 5 decades ago.
  I quoted from his THE DENIAL OF DEATH in my Zen/happiness book, 2017-
Google Lim Meng Sing.

  My thinking drew much parallel to yours in some ways-
please excuse me—I know you like truth and honesty-
  this had been before I read your book.

60% of such thinking evolved from my thinking and experiences,
and 40% from my reading.

I have been very active in Linkedin and Hello Poetry where I posted
ideas such as (not exact words):

1. Why would you need to remind yourself of ‘positive thinking’
unless you were dissatisfied with yourself?

2. PT is a malaise and scourge

3.  Praise would destroy me

4. Delete my name from your ‘Honours List'

5.  I was the last to arrive but I learnt more along the way than those arrived sooner

6.  Trust is necessary, but trusting absolutely would ruin you.

7.  They understood the world, but never understood their own selves

8.   Happiness can’t be chased after—it will arrive when you are ready.

9.   There’s neither freedom nor happiness if fear is not overcome.

10.  Who said the other person was happier than you?

11.   The greatest wisdom is the acceptance of death and suffering (this theme appears in my
book yet unpublished—couldn’t find a publisher as at now)
titled REFLECTIONS IN TURBULENT TIMES:
         A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE

12.   Don’t expect people to be always consistent.
Most people would let you down—rely on yourself

13.  My failures I embrace ,  I’m silent on my successes, if any

14.  Life is less the problem, it’s people , the more

15.  Be prepared to be spurned, maligned or mocked-
this will strengthen you and your character

16.  Death is mocked by your acceptance or indifference

17.  Know and accept life’s downside—more bright will be your life

18.  Give me patience , not wisdom

19.  I’m a fool but a happy one

20.  Because I ain’t special nor exceptional,  I court no enemy nor critic

   (Sorry, I shouldn’t go on).

I think you had read Zen, Buddhism, Stoicism but am not sure whether Taoism and/or Confucianism.

You are bound to be a cynic——just an observation.

     I am a humanist, very much so.  If you do meet or know me,
you’d discover I’m a humanist and humourist  (life is too short to be taken seriously-Oscar Wilde was right).

   I ain’t a philosopher or intellectual but only a life-observer.

The Wheeler Centre in Melb holds an annual writers’ conference and both local foreign writers are invited.  Alan de Botton and Norman Doidge spoke here before.
We’d love to have you in Melb and in other Aussie states.

   I wish your further success in your future works

   Humbly but honestly yours

   Meng Lim
2d · 64
Farewell
Do not add:
every word
has been said
only remember
we once had met

on that spring day
in the village-market:
I saw you reading
a book of love-poems
which you bought
our eyes each other's
suddenly caught
so unexpected!

And I spontaneously said:
'Oh, Keats and Shelley
Browning, Shakespeare
Hardy, Byron,  Herrick
all I had read
oh,  meeting you
like this---I'm so very glad!'.

Coffee at the village inn
how we laughed
as we began to chat
we lost count of time
too soon indeed
came the sunset

'  I'll send you
  my little collection
  of poetry
  write to me
  how you felt
  after you've read'

  For a year we courted
  love's wings how they
so rapidly spread-
to me you wrote:
' Our love
shall never be dead'.

To Cambridge I went
where four years
I stayed
upon my return
to Henry my friend
you'd wedded....

what a lovely child
I see now-
her name's Charlotte?
And entered this thought:
' She could have been mine
  oh, how cruel is fate!'

   There's now a roar of thunder
   and the clouds have turned dark
   the rain will fall soon
   for home you should
  both quickly head

farewell Adelaide
don't look
into my eyes
  not a word
more should be said.
Do not delay:
sing me now a song
read me a poem
as time is fleeting along-

utter them now
the words you wish to say
tomorrow might not come
lest I've gone far away-

my hands are so cold
hold them close to you
even in your silence I'll know
your love is always true-

look at the weary sun
as its light begins to quickly fade
abide by me till its last beams set
as our final moments we celebrate
The wise person
knows one thing-
his own ignorance
3d · 66
Trusting
Trusting is necessary
but surely it's  folly
to trust absolutely
Love that knows
no freedom
is the worst prison
4d · 84
Points of view
What I like
doesn't make
a thing right-
what I dislike
doesn't make
the thing a blight :
life can't be viewed
just from a single side
4d · 68
The World and I
The world is not
for me to tame:
managing myself
is my sole aim
4d · 64
My worldview
There's so much
wisdom outside
but to live and survive
I'll trust my inside
If you like me
too easily
you might hate
later---bitterly!
4d · 43
Don't embrace me
Don't embrace me
surely not yet
lest you should regret-
we've just met!
4d · 36
Wishing
A wish is
still a need
from this
does discontent breed
4d · 46
Knowing me
No, you don't need
to know me:
just get a feel
from my gentle poetry
4d · 50
A bit of me
I'm never a hero
but am satisfied
not being zero
as far as I go
We know
the past is misty
but the future
it will even be more so
No one will know
completely
things have many layers:
only parts are seen
and understood
imperfectly
5d · 65
My aspiration
I don't aspire
to conquer
it's enough
if I can endure
5d · 63
Simple grace
It's enough grace
to know your proper place
5d · 55
My testament
Wonderful or special
neither am I
just like you and everyone else
I live, I work and then I die
5d · 61
All I need
All I need
is being myself:
I require
no medal
It's the most passionate lover
who would turn the worst hater
5d · 78
If...
If you are
your own authority
you'd never fear
any form of tyranny
I only want peace
not to be a masterpiece
5d · 50
Priority
I will be patriotic to myself first
my country should wait
5d · 38
Don't say...
Don't say:
I've done
rather:
I've just begun
5d · 43
After-life
...but tomorrow
         can be an after -life
         you've left
         the past behind!
Love isn't obsolete
but quite often gets wearied
5d · 65
Life
Life is purpose
not only happiness
5d · 497
Moral Blindness
You could understand
people the world entire
yet fail to, unto yourself-
oh dear, oh dear!
5d · 45
Contempt
Contempt is stronger
than revenge or hate
in such, the really smart people
triumph and celebrate
Dr Peter Lim Sep 4
The heart has several chambers
not just one as we've thought
many secrets it hides within
such it shares not

the person is kept in the depth of doubt
in mystery he is helplessly caught
the mist of twilight hovers heavily over him
though for illumination he has so long sought
Sep 3 · 607
Advanced Zen
Dr Peter Lim Sep 3
.....but the mind
    can be truly blind
    with too much reason
    meaning it fails to find
Sep 3 · 242
The unrequited lover
Dr Peter Lim Sep 3
It's easier for me
to capture the wind
in my palm than
to hear a kind word
from you--not even
in a century!
Sep 3 · 79
How I react
Dr Peter Lim Sep 3
Other people's folly
I can easily accept
it's arrogance
that drives me mad!
Sep 3 · 119
The limit of things
Dr Peter Lim Sep 3
The last straw
broke the camel's back:
you got the sack
because to the boss
an extra word you said!
Sep 3 · 110
The mind and the heart
Dr Peter Lim Sep 3
The mind knows
   but the heart understands more
   knowledge has a clear limit
  feelings and intuition richer score
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