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Continue reading →: I love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.All of life is yin yang, A combination of opposites. In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how obviously opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as…
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Continue reading →: Truth has many faces but only one heart.What is the truth? Given that reality is perceptual, we would be willing to assume that truth must be perceptual as well. Many people experience a single event (like January 6th) and there are thousands of accounts (as experienced by each person). Are they all the truth? This aphorism is…
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Continue reading →: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.How many things are on your list of “I must do this in my lifetime”? How many of those are leftovers from a much larger list, from which you have already completed a significant selection? Of the ones that remain, how dedicated are you to ensuring you will find your…
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Continue reading →: No matter how badly someone treats you, never drop down to their level. Remain calm, stay strong and walk away.How adept are you at holding your temper? I have moments where I am astounded at what I can absorb and keep my mouth shut. And then, as pious and holier than thou as I feel, a person does something insanely stupid on the freeway and my angry inner child…
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Continue reading →: And I wonderAnd I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever be this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I’ll ever ask of you You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when DAVID GROHL Have you ever had…
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Continue reading →: Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Hot! Don’t touch! Why is empirical knowledge so prevalent in our life experience? The vast sum of knowledge that precedes anything that we may ever set in our minds, would preclude the majority of us from making more than 3/4 of all of the mistakes we make in life. So…
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Continue reading →: Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed that love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with.In relationships, it is always so much easier to look at the other party, and shine a light on the aspects of that partner that are causing friction. This perspective enables all of us to feel pious and holier than thou. But the harsh reality, when viewed objectively, is often…
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Continue reading →: Which would you prefer: Studying and learning the traditional way, or being able to upload information instantly into your brain (like the Matrix) and have complete command of the topic with the push of a button?What would it be like if we could instantly upload massive amounts of information like the characters in the Matrix? As I watched the Matrix, and saw how Neo was able to upload Jujitsu and Kung fu and fight like a master instantly upon the upload, the notion of instant…
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Continue reading →: We mature with the damage, not with the years.We mature with the damage, not with the years. How many wrong choices have you made in your life? I could not be able to count all of the wrong choices that I have made. That would be nearly impossible. The truth is that we all make choices… some large,…
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Continue reading →: Halloween: a day when we get it right.Strangers come to us, beautiful, ugly, odd or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly, and give them good things. Why don’t we live like that? Life is short. Strangers are, by definition, strange. We are consumed by our quests for survival. And our…
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Brian Weiner 