
I just want to seem psychic here and note that around July (2011) I started predicting with a high degree of certainty Romney was going to win the Republican presidential bid. People still don't get it, however such is life. There is no way the guy can lose. Not that he's the best candidate, Ron Paul is the only one who has notable integrity, it's that he'll say whatever it takes and he has a ton of money.
...and unfortunately I can only find it on facebook, so I can't embed it.
Is that philosophers can admit not knowing. They can be human.
If you are the light, then it's impossible to go into the darkness. -Aaron Adams aka Dirt Bringthefunk Adams
Here's my great contribution to science: The speed of space (Or akasha, depending on your persuasion.) is way faster than the speed of light. Wherever light goes, space already beat it. Someone give me a prize.
life [lahyf] Show IPA noun, plural lives [lahyvz] Show IPA, adjective
noun
1.
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2.
the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, especially metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
3.
the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual: to risk one's life; a short life and a merry one.
4.
a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life.
5.
the general or universal condition of human existence: Too bad, but life is like that.
I've been debating a lot lately as to where I'm going to complete my BA degree. Of course, being a somewhat intelligent character with good grades, schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UPenn., etc., have been the top choices but I'm beginning to realize something. Most of these schools are going to cost me a ton of money, and they probably wont accept most of my transfer credits which will add a considerable amount of time to my undergrad work. Plus, even if I don't go to a top tier university for my undergrad, providing I continue to do well at OSU I can still go for my masters. Ohio State is the cheapest school I can go to, and it will accept most of my transfer credits. Does this mean no more Harvard? We shall see.
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Our own life has to be our message.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
I was sort of debating as to whether or not I wanted to put this in my public blog or my private one, but whatever goes into the public blog tends to stick out in my mind a bit more so I figured I'd go for it.
At any rate, I noticed that when I do TM, if I recite my mantra on my in-breath as opposed to my out-breath I get a better result. Also, while, I'm on the subject of TM, now that I'm completely straight edge, even going so far as to limit my caffeine intake to tea, I feel like I'm getting a lot more depth out of my practice. Could be a complete placebo, but it's a pretty awesome one if that's the case.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
...and, this isn't from Bill Cosby, but it came from the same girl on facebook so why not:
Fear does not stop death. It stops life.
It's basically good for everything. There is ample research to support this, but honestly it just makes me feel better when I eat it. Here's a link if you need a starting point.
If you follow evolution to it's ultimate end, it would seem it actually ends up creating a God. I've been thinking about this for years and still haven't seen it written anywhere. I'd like to get credit for this idea in the future, as it seems smart and I want to seem smart too. Thanks internet.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of piece of mind.
I don't want to do anything in life where the results couldn't be appreciated by a child living in a favela.
Enlightenment is a state in which one is constantly able to see the good in things. An enlightened person can see the good in others and bring that out in them.
"...hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. The world does not know that we must all come to an end here, but those who know it, their quarrels cease at once." -Dhammapada
From www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/09/found_quotes_10.php
It's always important to remember that you're only a customer if you pay money for a product. If it's "free", you're the product being sold. -- Thomas Fuchs, Twitter August 20, 2011
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature. -- Karl Schroeder, Charlie's Diary, August 12, 2011
We become more normal when we actually know what is going on -- we are more unpredictable when we don't. -- David Hassanpour, New York Times, August 29, 2011.
As the 2000s proceeded, the interval between something happening and its being revisited seemed to shrink insidiously.” -- Simom Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, 2011, page xii.
What is more pleasant than the benevolent notice other people take of us, what is more agreeable than their compassionate empathy? … Attention by other people is the most irresistible of drugs. To receive it outshines receiving any other kind of income. This is why glory surpasses power and why wealth is overshadowed by prominence. -- Georg Franck, The Economy of Attention, December 7, 1999
I still remember exactly where I was, standing in a Dolores Street apartment with a cereal bowl in my hand, when [Steve Jobs] came on TV to say a competitor had no poetry. It made me think poetry had a place in business and that in turn made me think I had a place in business, too. -- Glenn Kelman, Redfin Corporate Blog, August 24, 2011
Computers: They are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso, in In Search of Genius, 1982, by William Fifield, p. 140, and p. 40.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is in the doing something else. - Tom Peters, Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1994.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -- Apple's Think Different ad, 1997
Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. -- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2006, p. 255.
The Morningside Cannibals: a circle of polite middle-class people who dined out on each other, with aid of a medical tissue incubator tank. In the end they, they were reported to the Procurator Fiscal for outraging public decency and corpse desecration: a flimsy case, as the defense barristers pointed out in court, given the dinner parties in question were strictly private affairs, and the human flesh on the plates had been cloned from ladies who were not only still alive but willing to testify that their own cultured meat tasted nothing like chicken. -- Charlie Stross, Rule 34, 2011 (Via John Powers)