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Continue reading →: When the student is ready, the master appears.Of all of the aphorisms that I have encountered and validated through my own personal experiences, this is one of my all-time favorites. There are so many times when we, as students, are ill prepared and therefore not ready for our next big lesson. But, almost without exception, as we…
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Continue reading →: Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.When I read the countless quotations from Albert Einstein, one of the most prevalent of his thoughts is that he always started with the premise that everything was possible, thereby eliminating the presumed negative variables that instantly cast a defacto shadow on things he might be thinking about. If you…
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Continue reading →: Believing is seeing.Do we see what we believe? Or….do we believe what we are seeing? Preconceived notions lie at the basis of that distinction. Often times, we hear that someone is so focused as to prove what they set out to believe was true. This happens with scientists, crime enforcement, politicians and…
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Continue reading →: We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.Impartiality is an absolute that is, I believe, almost unattainable. It is very much akin to the disparity between a subjective versus objective perspective. At some point, our personal bias has to come into the equation. Take the classic opening to 2001 a space Odyssey in which primitive man first…
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Continue reading →: Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.It seems to me that one of the greatest Achilles’ heels of our country is the percentage of our population that is not able to form educated critical judgment. So many people are willing to accept a fact as being accurate without any contemplation of what is bringing that fact…
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Continue reading →: Beauty is perceptualReality is perceptual. If you think that this was terribly sad and depressing, read it again from the bottom…line by line….all the way up to the top. Beauty is within and it is always visible, regardless of whether the beholder is capable of seeing it. If you know anyone who…
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Continue reading →: Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.Trying to maintain an open mind is a daily exercise. So many variables come into our world, each bringing opportunity to create bias, modify our perspective, change our opinion, enlighten our overall purpose. It is of course natural to have bias, stemming from each and every influence starting with our…
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Continue reading →: You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.Trying to change something in your daily routine is considerably more difficult than one might imagine. Certainly there are moments where something like a New Year’s resolution facilitate a short term change, but how often does that change last for? The reality is that we become very set in our…
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Continue reading →: There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.Happy first day of Spring🌞 My partner Lynne and I hiked up to the top of my favorite mountain in Westlake this morning, hoping for a sunrise. We saw a beautiful stream of water vapor. I hope your day is off to a beautiful start😊
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Continue reading →: Few things will bring you greater pleasure than accomplishing that which others have told you could not be done.In 2012, we pointed an iPad (which was a relatively new invention at the time) at an Illusion Factory logo, and it played our sizzle reel. We did not have a company called Sizzle at that point. We posted the video on YouTube excitedly, thinking that we were going to…
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I’m Brian
I believe it is truly possible to change the world, one thought at a time. If anything I have written connects with you, please share it with others. My goal in creating this is to help others with ideas that are thought-provoking, stimulating and cathartic.
Brian Weiner 