Expect the unexpected

(or you wont find it)
a creativity tool based on the ancient wisdom of Heraclitus
bt Roger von Oech , author of A Whack on the Side of the Head.

Heraclitus was a ancient Greek philosopher that was famous for his brilliand and provacative sayings.
The creative Insights of Heraclitus:
1. The cosmos speaks in patterns
2. Expect the unexpected, or you wont find it.
3. Everything flows.
4. You cant step in the same river twice.
5. That which opposes produces a benefit.
6. A wonserful harmony is created when we join together the seemingly unconnected.
7. If all things turned to smoke, the nose would become the discerning organ.
8. The Sun will not exceed its limits, because the avenging Furies, ministers of Justince, would find out.
9. Lovers of wisdom must open their minds to very many things.
10. I searched into myself.
11. Knowing many things doesnt teach insight.
12. Many fail to grasp whats right in the palm of their hands.
13. When there is no sun, we can see the evening stars.
14. The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random.
15. Things love to conceal their true nature.
16. Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, posess the power of kings.
17. Sea water is both pure and polluted: for fish it is drinkable and life-giving: for humans undrinkable and destructive.
18. On a circle, an end point can also be a beginning point.
19. It is diesease that makes health pleasant, hunger that makes fullness good, and weariness that makes rest sweet.
20. Dogs bark at what they dont understand.
21. The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering.
22. The way up and the way down are on and the same.
23. A things rests by changing.
24. The barley-wine drink falls apart unless it is stirred.
25. While we're awake, we share one universe, but in sleep we are each turn away to a world of our own.
26. Donkeys prefer garbage to gold.
27. Every walking animal is driven to its purpose with a whack.
28. There is a greater need to extinguish arrogance thatn a blazing fire.
29. Your character is your destiny.
30.The sun is new each day.

Nourishment

This is from the Book - I Ching:

RE: Waiting (Nourishment)

There is a situation at hand that cannot be corrected by force or external effort. The Creative will provide the solution to one who waits with a correct attitude. This is a time for patience and careful attention to inner truth.

Do not give into to doubt and agitation now. You are not meant to wait in a state of desperate longing but in one of patient inner strength. Without certainty in the power of truth, success is impossible. Attempts to force a change, rather than allowing it to mature naturally, will only cause misfortune.

You would be wide to strengthen and reaffirm your reliance on the Creative. When you indulge in fear and doubt, you flood the arena where the Higher Power is attempting to work. Your principal responsibility in life is to keep this arena- your own consciousness- free of negative influences.

By accepting things as they are and not making fruitless comparisons to the situations of others or some imagined ideal, one engages the power of the Creative. If one then remains balanced, modest, and independent, good fortune will come to hand.