Comments on A Robert Brault Reader: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, etc.

Laurie, I sent you an email today, 9/7/10. rb

2010-09-07T04:41:15.013-07:00

Laurie,
I sent you an email today, 9/7/10.

rb

Robert, I have been trying to e-mail you for three...

2010-09-07T02:56:33.310-07:00

Robert, I have been trying to e-mail you for three months and the mails keep getting rejected. I want to talk with you about your relationship quotations. Can you e-mail me please at pax@peace.co.uk

Wonderful. all thoughts seems to be very passiona...

2010-08-19T13:59:49.887-07:00

Wonderful. all thoughts seems to be very passionate and make think over around all things doing wrongly and to find any answer for question that we have in our way of living.

Anon, Is that you, roaming my archives? Welsome t...

2010-05-12T04:39:21.781-07:00

Anon,
Is that you, roaming my archives? Welsome to the mausoleum of my thoughts.

smiles,
rb

Robert, You are a vert talented writer! love the q...

2010-05-11T15:28:27.645-07:00

Robert, You are a vert talented writer! love the quotes up here!!!

Bob, Well, depression may well be brain chemistry,...

2010-03-01T07:43:14.091-08:00

Bob,
Well, depression may well be brain chemistry, and there's treatment and prescribed medications that can address that, but the self-awareness in your questions suggest a quite healthy mind to me.

Without social interaction, we all head down "dark paths." It's a needed counterpoint to the meditative life -- the antidote for the tendency to contemplate one's navel. The whole trick to staying positive is to realize that we're all in this together. Everyone's more or less lonely, everyone feels socially maladroit, everyone is bolstered by finding that there's someone else who thinks, feels, as they do.

I note, Bob, that you're 21. At age 40, I could have written much the same comment you did. You can steal a 19-year headstart on me by just deciding to be a little more sharing of your life.

smiles,
rb

How do you maintain a positive outlook? I do nothi...

2010-02-28T18:48:49.123-08:00

How do you maintain a positive outlook? I do nothing but think all day, but my thoughts tend towards such dark paths. Derivations so subtle as to escape awareness. Is the secret in interaction? I've isolated myself ever since I was a child, and now I'm completely maladjusted socially, but it never stood to reason (in my mind, at least) that "having a life" was fundamental to keeping lucid thought.

Or, to put more directly- As a thinker, how are you not depressed all the time? Is it merely brain chemistry, beyond thought?

Cindy, I just visited back and was pretty overwhel...

2010-02-22T05:05:54.964-08:00

Cindy,
I just visited back and was pretty overwhelmed to discover who Cindy La Ferle is. Welcome to the roll of artists more accomplished than I who drop by here. I encourage all to pay you a visit -- a real treat awaits.

smiles,
rb

I often find your quotes in "Quote Garden,&qu...

2010-02-21T14:02:41.599-08:00

I often find your quotes in "Quote Garden," and am always inspired or delighted by your wisdom. It's about time I visited your site!

Michelle, It's one my goals -- to be a long-de...

2010-02-21T04:56:17.983-08:00

Michelle,
It's one my goals -- to be a long-dead guy sharing his pearls of wisdom. Maybe I'll get there some day. Welcome.

Don/Anon
Yes, there's a "huh?" or two in this batch. Not intentional. Maybe this blog needs an experimental printing.

Maria,
Saw Apollo save the bronze also, although he tends to fake going around, then sneaks past on the inside. I guess the rule is, "Keep your sights on the goal and your peripheral vision on your opponent."

Hi Robert! I just finished watching short track sp...

2010-02-20T21:14:37.863-08:00

Hi Robert!
I just finished watching short track speed skating and the amazing Apolo Anton Ohno... I think this quote suits him very well~

"A river does not beat its head against obstacles. It always goes around -- and it always gets to the sea."

A great philosophy ~ To be like water ~
Have a wonderful Sunday * Maria

To my amazing, amusing, muse/mentor: At times I ...

2010-02-20T07:02:28.602-08:00

To my amazing, amusing, muse/mentor:

At times I say "Huh?" Other times, "Hmmmmm" and again "Aha!" Or "Ha." Or occasionally a gut-busting nearly hilarious, "Ha ha ha ha ha, he,he ho ho" which brings tears to my eyes and always provokes thoughts or stirs memories.
Incidentally, I sold out (or gave away) my first experimental printing. Don't ask how many we printed. Keep going, my friend! donkimrey

Wow -- I've been reading your quotes on a webs...

2010-02-20T05:43:17.473-08:00

Wow -- I've been reading your quotes on a website called The Quote Garden recently, and thought you were some long-dead guy who shared amazing pearls of wisdom along the likes of other long-dead guys. Curiosity got the better of me as to who you were, so I clicked on the link next to one of your quotes.

Imagine my delightful surprise when I found you're quite alive, and continuing to share pearls of wisdom!

~Michelle Quillin

K7, I'm pleased that you posted a collection o...

2010-02-19T08:54:19.343-08:00

K7,
I'm pleased that you posted a collection of my thoughts on your site, but I didn't notice that you attributed them to me. Might you include my name in there somewhere? Thanks.

rb

Go to http://machinesandlife.blogspot.com/ and vie...

2010-02-19T07:05:49.330-08:00

Go to http://machinesandlife.blogspot.com/ and view that site.. It'll be interesting one

Ken, I only say 'em, I don't explain '...

2010-02-18T14:33:56.888-08:00

Ken,
I only say 'em, I don't explain 'em, but I would never suggest that heaven is a lie. That would imply I know something. Think of me not as a cynic but as someone who occasionally cannot resist a facile phrase.

smiles,
rb

Hi Robert "Is there a heaven? I don't kno...

2010-02-18T12:07:38.830-08:00

Hi Robert
"Is there a heaven? I don't know, but I know that life ends with something that takes your breath away." Such a clever way of putting it.

If only death was as exciting as something that takes your breath away in the exciting way that it implies in the quote...or are you saying that heaven could be as big a lie as an exhilarating death?

You don't know this, but I actually tell the woman off when she asks me to turn around. 'I am, I am, for goodness sake!'

You may miss the last train to eternal life but there'll always be a train to immortality and you'll never be alone there. You might want to be though.

A mystery isn't really a mystery to some. I don't have mysteries in my life...just things I don't yet understand. Immortality should sort that out easily enough. I reckon a few million years should crack the current batch.

patriciapaddey, Marlene, Jan, Raj: Thank you. Yo...

2010-02-18T04:57:00.974-08:00

patriciapaddey, Marlene, Jan, Raj:

Thank you. You are true friends to comment as frequently as you do. I'm especially encouraged when my attempts at humor get a chuckle.

smiles,
rb

"I decided long ago that if I miss something ...

2010-02-18T03:19:47.850-08:00

"I decided long ago that if I miss something important in life, it won't be because I hurried past it." So well said Robert – Long back I resolved to devote sufficient time for eating & praying! It also applies to spending quality time with close ones! And writing & sharing notes is spending quality time with me!!

LOVE the thought about frugality being a virtue if...

2010-02-17T17:09:37.552-08:00

LOVE the thought about frugality being a virtue if only it were voluntary -- so true! Thanks for the smile today.

They were all good and the corners of my mouth wer...

2010-02-17T16:41:19.437-08:00

They were all good and the corners of my mouth were turning up, but when I reached that last one, the laughter exploded and would not be held back.

Once again you've taken my breath away, Robert...

2010-02-17T16:19:00.375-08:00

Once again you've taken my breath away, Robert. Thank you.