January 2012
“The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.”
– Paulo Coelho (via thresca)
Life's Ebb and Flow
The waves roll in, what shall they bring As each day dawns of good or ill, Each moment fills Then swift withdraws To freely give, or quickly take On unseen wind A wave will surely, rise to break
And shall a life stand up or fall Beneath that weight, to shoulder all Though who withstands the current flow While some appear To chase all fear Yet deeper still a hardness forms To hide the pain, each...
Two Kinds of Intelligence
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this...
The New Year
The new year has commenced Its momentous journey today. From today on, during the entire year, I shall not offer my volcano-ambition To the world. I shall offer the world Only my moonlit heart’s flaming aspiration.
- Sri Chinmoy
The Kingdom Within
There is a kingdom of the spirit’s ease. It is not in this helpless swirl of thought, Foam from the world-sea or spray-whisper caught, With which we build mind’s shifting symmetries, Nor in life’s stuff of passionate unease, Nor the heart’s unsure emotions frailty wrought Nor trivial clipped sense-joys soon brought to nought Nor in this body’s solid transiences.
Wider behind than the vast...
Being walkers with the dawn and morning
Being walkers with the dawn and morning, Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness– Being walkers with the sun and morning.
- Langston Hughes
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman
"Multitasking is a Moral Weakness." →
The Last Days - Signs of Times →
“…Self-righteous people always blame God for their problems and troubles...”
– http://deeptruths.com/articles/bitterness-the_deadly_root-2.html#2b
“Truly great folks never stoop
To answer petty things;
The unkind word, the...”
– “Let it Pass”
“Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all...”
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Ephesians 4:31-32
“Bitterness is being constantly hurt by a memory and is holding onto a hurt until...”
Thick Beauty
— "Beauty is only skin deep."
— "My beauty is NOT only surface - it’s in layers. I have very THICK beauty."
“75% of my regrets involve hitting the “send” button.”
“« Tout groupe humain prend sa richesse dans la communication, l’entraide et...”
– Françoise Dolto
“People who point at their wrist asking for the time… I know where my watch...”
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