GENIUS FORUMS

RISK
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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to others is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to do nothing.

The person who risks nothing,
does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave,
they forfeited their freedom.

Only the person who risks can be free

psychological risk is an illusion. Enlightened individuals have nothing to risk, as what they are in every moment is sufficient.

Risk implies emotion, and the ones that risk are enslaved because their happiness is dependent on a preferred outcome. They are not free because they are caught between the risk of positive and negative emotional gain and loss.

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

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DHodges wrote:"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

-tomas snipes-
Unless the ship is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on or about December 7, 1941 :-/


-DHodges-
"...but that's not what ships are built for."

-tomas queries-
What are ships built for (unless you're on the Titanic)?


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Tomas wrote:What are ships built for (unless you're on the Titanic)?

Cruisin' about on various bodies of water, transporting cargo hither and yon, and making me seasick.