I never considered myself as a religious person, but when I heard this in a movie, many many years ago, I thought it was great whisdom, so I made a search to see where it came from, and I finally discovered that it came from #Ecclesiastes 3: A time for everything. #Bible #religion
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

#markets #oil

"Russian oil tsar", Igor Sečin, quoted Bible and declared that #Europe no longer sets Urals price.

"As it's scripted in #ecclesiastes what is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted," he said.

In terms of "blowback" one of the biggest winners in tectonic shift caused by Western, European price controls and embargo's is #India, whom now serves as main hub for refining Russian crude, including for EU.

https://grabancijas.com/secin-citirao-propovjednika-europa-vise-ne-odreduje-cijenu-uralske-nafte/

sometimes I want to #READ ALL THE #BOOKS and sometimes I feel like the author of #Ecclesiastes who said, "of making many books there is no end; and much #study is a weariness to the flesh."

Two secrets that are thousands of years old.

1. Don’t just work hard. Work hard AND work smart.

2. Seek all the wisdom you can get. Then you’ll be more successful.

Thanks Solomon. It was good advice then, and it is good advice now.

#productivity #ecclesiastes #worksmart #seekwisdom

A time to refrain – Forthright Magazine http://forthright.net/2021/06/12/time-to-refrain/

> When my wife and I read Ecclesiastes in our daily devotional recently I paused at the end of 3:5 to ask facetiously, “Is this a prophecy of the Covid Pandemic?”

#Ecclesiastes #hugging

Time well spent – Forthright Magazine http://forthright.net/2019/09/28/time-well-spent/

> I recently watched a man in South Asia cut down a mahogany tree with a hatchet. The tree was probably 20 inches or so in diameter, with a fairly full top, and he climbed up near the top then began trimming branches. When he had it trimmed down to the main trunk only, then he came to the ground and cut it at the roots. Some of the work he did with a crosscut saw, but most was with a hand ax. If you have never tried it, take it from me, that is a hard job. This man did it well, and it did not take a very long time.

#preparation #Ecclesiastes

Ready for winter now. This was my last steep of fresh green #tea for 2017.

#Ecclesiastes #sigh
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