Religion
Related: About this forumWhen I taught Freshman English as a grad student,
we always discussed figures of speech like similes and metaphors. One of my favorite exercises in the course, which was really a class in reading and writing, was to ask the students to explain this bible verse, and to restate it in one simple sentence:
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" from the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 6: 34
The answers I got were all over the place. Then, we had a discussion about interpreting language. The exercise forced the students to think beyond the words and get to the meaning. The antiquated KJV language added to the puzzle.
So, what's your simple sentence?
Sha la la la la la live for today
And don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
nocoincidences
(2,234 posts)Similar but not exact:
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Here's another good one:
yonder
(9,683 posts)"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow....
....Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone"
-F.M.
4139
(1,893 posts)Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)However, reason suggests the same.
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)"It doesn't matter" doesn't really match. It might matter.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)...and would argue in the final analysis that both are saying, in effect, that only the day(s), within which I exist, matter(s).
The Greeks merely go one step further and exclaim: beyond that, I have no care.
Non curo.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,742 posts)"Desire not the results of today's actions (karmas) that of their own nature will manifest reactions (karma phala), equal to the bad (and good) done."
Take therefore no thought the results of today's actions, thought for the things of itself (nature of things) will manifest reactions (the morrow), sufficient (equal) to the evil done today.
Bhagavad Gita 2:47 (variously translated from Sanskrit)
You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.
You only have authority over action, not ever to the result. Dont be motivated by the result, and dont get attached to inaction.
You have the right to work only but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.
Your right is to perform your work, but never to the results. Never be motivated by the results of your actions, nor should you be attached to not performing your prescribed duties.
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)Simplify.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)That's my interpretation of that verse.
sanatanadharma
(3,742 posts)More like always only this one day, as the morrow never comes.
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)Yesterday cannot be changed. Tomorrow is uncertain.
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)BluesRunTheGame
(1,622 posts)The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin on like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)underpants
(182,959 posts)Or as John Lennon once said "Life is what happens when you're making other plans"
cachukis
(2,279 posts)Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,185 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,185 posts)'be best' slogan by rump's wife.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,919 posts)"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die," which doesn't quite fit the sentiment, I know.
"Don't sweat the small stuff," likewise seems appropriate.