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Continue reading →: Before I was humiliated, I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very hight and placed me on top of the wall.Admittedly, I knew zero about Saint Patrick prior to my research this morning. I read all of Saint Patrick’s known quotations and sensed a man who had the toughest of chapters in life as a slave owned by a Celtic priest. As I read his story and his quotes, I…
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Continue reading →: There behind a glass Stands a real blade of grass Be careful as you pass Move along! Move along!I have been reading a lot of articles that are gushingly enthusiastic about colonizing Mars. Haven’t these people seen the movie Total Recall? The little boy inside of me that treasures our space program, revels in those lofty dreams of colonization. The other side of my personality looks at how…
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Continue reading →: People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.We are all luminous beings, working with all that we have to emote our greatest selves. The pressures of our economy and our personal quest to thrive during the pandemic has caused all of us to dig much deeper within, searching for resources and a deeper potential than perhaps we…
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Continue reading →: I don’t know the actual meaning of maturity. But for me, maturity is when somebody tries to hurt you and instead of trying to hurt them back, you try to understand their problem.the opportunity to really understand the bully and to not only empathize but to thereby create a bond, if possible, and convert the bully, struck me as a much more interesting prospect.
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Continue reading →: Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.Hemingway was often short on speech but long in thought. As am I today. Hope your weekend is off to a magical start🌞
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Continue reading →: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.As our nation embraces the recovery act and the proliferation of solutions to the virus, a wave of compassion is potentially spreading across the country. With relief packages designed to help the lower echelons of society, combined with solutions to help the countless businesses whose world has been turned upside…
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Continue reading →: I’ve learned you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It can change your life forever.Secrets are among the most unique oddities of the human specie. To my knowledge, we are the only specie that exhibit this behavior. If you dissect the essence of a secret down to its most rudimentary building block, it starts with a deception (which is not unique to the human…
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Continue reading →: Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, not as how you think it should be.Would it not be a joyous experience if life were to exist exactly as you think it should be? As a proposition, I think that is a very interesting quandary. At first blush, I think everybody would like things to be exactly as they wish that they were. But, by…
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Continue reading →: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.As a devout fan of both science and science fiction, it has been a fascinating journey watching science-fiction give way to science. I’m sure all of us can think back on earlier moments of science fiction and find little moments that connect. When my company created NXTGENTV in 2005, I…
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Continue reading →: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.I think we all feel comfortable when we know that our intellectual capabilities are on par with the people with whom we are socializing or meeting. The comfort of allowing that to be your pattern, precludes so many opportunities to learn from another. When I was a very little boy,…
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Brian Weiner 