happy new year 2006

for last year's words belong to last year's language
and next year's words await another voice.
what we call the beginning is often the end
and to make an end is to make a beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot

do not depend on the hope of results . . .
you may have to face the fact that
your work will be apparently worthless and
even achieve no result at all,
if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
as you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. . . .
you gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. . .
in the end,
it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
~ Thomas Merton

lastly... never dwell on the past. life goes on as the time never awaits for anything and anybody. today is yesterday's tomorrow.