October 2011
“Events do not have meanings. Events are events, and meanings are thoughts....”
– Neale Donald Walsch
Do you really have an open mind?
There is certainly an evolution in everybody’s personal path from knowledge and experience, to wisdom, and even spirituality. Along the way, you also realize that there is a real story of mystery about mankind that is largely suppressed. At first you’ll think it’s through ignorance, but if you look into it deeper, it’s not through ignorance. There is a suppression of...
“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books...”
– Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night (via excessivebookshelf)
“In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in...”
– Charlie Brooker (via liberationfrequency)
Desiderata
dayofbeauty:
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with...
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing...”
– Dale Carnegie (via davenelson)
“Electricity. Rabbits. Starlight. Starlings.
Clockwork. Respiration. Pop music....”
– Gillian Devereux, Things That Are Not Magic (via grammatolatry)
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the...”
– Bertrand Russell (via chrisdeline)
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison (via likethesun)
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“If we are stuck or trapped in our own thoughts we will not have control over...”
– Universoul (via universoul)
Meditate to elevate your mental state
I’ll have to say that it’s been two years since I experimented with meditation and to tell you the truth, it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life thus far. It’s opened up a sense of added awareness of the world around me, and more importantly, transformed the construct of my inner space… Cheers to a good life!
Are you more inclined to focus on the violence around the world or are we focusing on what we can/should do to make things better?
That’s the interesting thing about humans… we’re capable of doing and focusing on either.
It’s all choice.
I choose to use the internet to get and share positive, stimulating ideas.
For instance, did you know that Costa Rica is a very wise country, presided by...
“The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Do not ask me about truth, about the divine, about nirvana, liberation. Do not...”
– Osho (via universoul)
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of...”
– Blaise Pascal
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anti-propaganda:
Wall Street Protesters Should Instead Focus on the Federal Reserve
‘I’ve been closely following the loosely organized Occupy Wall Street protests on social media sites over the past few weeks. Now I’m all for citizen activism and freedom of assembly but I’m still unconvinced that most these protesters know what exactly their protesting. They’re angry about the state of...
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us....”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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Psychoneuroimmunology
universoul:
To be coming from a hypnotherapist’s point of view, lately I’ve been filtering my experiences through the lenses of a hypnotist, how each and every one of us flows through the constructs of our surrounding environmental and social terrain, which invariably affects our psyche, and in turn influences the immune system, the endocrine system, gastrointestinal and, well, pretty much every...
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“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson...”
– Tom Bodett
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“Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.”
– Tilopa (via lazyyogi)
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches…and rounded corners. RIP Steve.
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“But, if you have nothing else to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
– Ann Landers
“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Nature does not proceed by leaps.”
– Carl Linnaeus
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common dense: Question your beliefs, your reason... →
fraterbaldur:
commondense:
Question your beliefs, your reason for existence. Question your will. What will become of you in the end? This is necessary for all of humanity, but most of us do not seek out an answer. We merely continue on, conforming to a society that creates a perpetual state of depression and increases the…
Hey Commondense: while I’m HIGHLY in accord with the sentiment of...
On Anger
Anger may not be quite the ‘basic’ emotion we think it is.The Utkuhikhalingmiut tribe of Inuit (Eskimos) and The Polynesians of Tahiti and surrounding islands do not express anger at one another, and look down upon it, in fact the closest translation for the Utkuhikhalingmiut word would be ‘childishness’. The Polynesians even demonize anger and regard it as going crazy....
Question your beliefs, your reason for existence. Question your will. What will become of you in the end? This is necessary for all of humanity, but most of us do not seek out an answer. We merely continue on, conforming to a society that creates a perpetual state of depression and increases the tendency towards suicide.
Ask yourself, what are you doing it for? Take an honest look at the pillars...
“In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior....”
– Ken Wilber
“Benefiting as they do from our ignorance as to the workings of social...”
– Michael Tsarion