I remember…

I remember.

I remember when time were slow, cars were low, and we would feel the fall of snow.

Now time is fast, cars are rash, and the cold wind cuts like glass.

I remember.

Quatrains

A Quatrain is a four-line poem or stanza.
Nostradamus used this format to express his predictions.

Contemplation; how far to take it
Honesty opens the door for shimmer
Too much light and self may dimmer
We wear our clothes; no man is naked

A tick tock with gears a turning
Man in East and man in West
From each side we yearn with zest
And we’ll meet through soul that’s burning

From awake to asleep
We fall to the sounds of thy sheep
Was unclear to our ears
Now we see when we face our fears

What do we want with all this mess
If we knew what would it be
Take his hand you will be blessed
Only God can imagine the things we see

Changing topic, noun and light
Everything seems so bright
But for now the scene can’t change
For I have not learned how to make this plane

Born and raised by a she
Taught and shown by man in leaves
Put to rest by her touch
Both his hands can never know how rough

Breaking bread then scorning later
I’ll spare the hate and do you favors
Leave you alone but you keep on back
I’m not a friend but loyal to that

you roll the die and ask why
I do not thrive in chance or lie
I know the way and the way is known
For who I become will sit on throne

There are no rules

There are stellar amounts of Gurus, Scientists, Holy Men, Prophets, Visionaries, Teachers, Professors, Philosophers, Parents, Employers, Icons, Celebrities, and friends who think they know what is best for you. Yes it is true that they know some things about you, but their realities are nothing like yours. You may look to various outlets for guidance but the one thing that is bringing you down the most is your relationship with your own identity. You have spent your entire life reinforcing who you think you are because you feel as though you have to be an ideal. Ideals are born out of the past and you feel it is a must to guide you through the future. This is true to a degree, but most of these beliefs about yourself are misconceptions derived from what you think you should be. The ego loves continuity; you have a sense of identification with the world because of it, but in all actuality you ARE the world, so there are no rules.

Reprogramming your Brain: A brief introduction to negativity

I am sure you have heard the term- vicious cycle. A vicious cycle is a negative custom that is carried our over and over. For instance, a vicious cycle that one may go through is their day job. If you are a 9-5er (this blog isn’t about the evils of work, it’s about the evils of our minds), you wake up and get ready for work. You think about the day and what plans you have after work. You get to work and you finish the work day. Throughout this time, many people focus on what they will do after working. They think about kicking back and drinking a beer, or maybe they have to make dinner for the kids. This is fine, but it is not fine when looking forward to getting off of work is not out of excitement for these activities, but as an escape. Since people are so focused on what to do later, they miss out on the opportunity to use “the now” to learn from themselves.

Most of people’s work has become so routine, that they don’t even need to think about what they are doing; they just do it. They could do it miserably or do it joyfully depending on how they are feeling at the time. Maybe one day this week you were at work and you preferred to be on a Farris Wheel and negative thoughts came into your mind. Thoughts like, “I don’t like doing this work” or “My boss sucks.” Perhaps you contemplated your own life, and started to think that you were wasting your time.

We have been programmed to trigger these mental routines depending on our mental states. Remember that positivity and negativity are modes of thinking that embody are thoughts. We feel bad, angry or envious when we believe that we should feel bad, angry, or envious because of some outside stimulus; therefore, ingraining a belief system into ourselves. We consciously and subconsciously run these negative programs every Day, Month, Year, and Decade. We do not have to. We choose to do so out of lack of imagination that there could be something else to contemplate. There are times that we SHOULD be negative, but we believe those times come more frequently than necessary. It’s not that we need to be free from negativity, but we should not be a slave to it.

Instead of becoming negative because of an event, You can free yourself from continuous degrading and dreadful thoughts. Suppose someone at work makes you look like an idiot. Instead of focusing on how idiotic you are, you could decide to envision a flower blooming and simultaneously count to ten while imagining its petals stretching upwards. Maybe you worked with somebody you dislike and all you you could think about is a fantastical confrontation; actually, you could feel pity for them and have provided a good gesture. It could be that you aren’t so great at conversing with your colleague, and you usually dread future dialogue, but you plan ahead this time, proposing a new subject while intending to better your approach.

Things will not always go our way and we will become upset. This happens to everybody. This aggravation is a living thing inside us all, but we do not need to manifest it. We could be using our discomfort for constructive purposes instead. After all, if we were perfect, there would be nothing to strive towards.

The Journey of Thought: Making Mistakes

We can give ourselves a hard time when we can’t invoke a lost idea or fumble mentally in a given situation. It can be anything from something as trivial as forgetting a TV game show host’s name, or forgetting an epiphany that arose through some parsing of ideas that were generated separately at first, but have now came to a confluence. Usually, when speaking fails, it is because one is either worried about their image, or their reason behind their story is pretentious. It does not matter the case, negativity is released upon ones own ego if we scorn ourselves for making a mental mistake. Some people believe that they are inherently stupid, and scorn themselves verbally out loud amongst others. In turn, others start to somewhat believe this to be true, but most people are not stupid, just misguided.

Instead of persecuting ourselves, we can appreciate the ability to analyze a situation, and not necessarily have an answer, but applaud ourselves for having an analytical intelligence. Continuing positively allows one to stick to their unique vision. It is kind of like the adage “It’s not the goal, it’s the journey,” or something to that extent.

If you put sole priority on the goal of your thought, rather than prioritizing journey, you will lose most of the authenticity and purpose. If you are over-critical of your thinking pattern, your train of thought can halt, spontaneity discontinues and it picks up ideals on the way that create self-doubt (like, “I should of known that, or”). The train of thought is dispirited, because worry enters the mind; we can’t look past our error at the time. This partially explains why some people have a hard time relaying what they are saying and the life of meaning is lost in ramble and obscurity. We place a lot of emphasis on the self at these times rather than the joy of expressing an idea.

On the other side of the coin, passionate orators can display huge believability because they are not focused on the self and reason, but the true nature of the idea and the expression behind it. It is true imagery and artistry. How come some people can make a point that sounds true, but when a different person explains the same notion, it just doesn’t seem believable? True, it is the passion, belief, experience, education, wisdom, and overall charisma that a great speaker is projecting. But, there is something else and I believe that it is visualization and imagery that is telepathically transferred from the speaker to another individual. It was the imagery, expression and true nature that projected itself onto the listener.

Putting emphasis on the journey of thought, and not so much the goal itself, allows us to exercise the imagination, and the joy of using our heads. Not so much the solidification of our own egos.

Quotes

Here is an archive of quotes that I had posted on Twitter in chronological order. The first posts start at the bottom and the newest quotes start at the top. The authors of the quotes are given except in the case that some of the quotes are written by me with no credit.

# Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. – Emily Bronte 5:35 PM Nov 2nd from web

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Now the one was full of avarice, and the other eaten up with envy. – Aesop 11:49 AM Nov 2nd from web

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We did not create the rules for being human. Since we are human, all we can conceive is a human perspective; we only respond, not create. 10:36 AM Nov 2nd from web

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All things cutting edge in the world are weird. Could it be that we live in a world that’s stranger than society allows us to perceive? 12:03 PM Oct 30th from web

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How can I be a star and a hermit at the same time? I think I am a lunatic if not anything else. 9:24 AM Oct 27th from MySpace

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U are not the mind. The mind is the tool. A tool 2 give U identity & ability 2 carry out process. U are God; not the figure, but the energy. 12:35 PM Oct 23rd from web

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One of the greatest joys in the world is the feeling that you don’t have to fit any kind of mold. 1:39 PM Oct 3rd from web

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The only thing tough about life is your relationship with it. 6:52 PM Oct 1st from web

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they have no reason to seek that which has been known before; failing to see that each mind can add to the experience. 11:59 PM Sep 30th from web

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Knowledge is overlooked by people who think that because some other person has it, 11:59 PM Sep 30th from web

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What more validity must there be for happiness to erupt and flow than the understanding that we have charted little in the realm of mind. 11:54 PM Sep 30th from web

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People need to come together, not in a cheesy way, but pragmatically, out of necessity and emotion. 11:50 PM Sep 30th from web

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The strangest thing about life is the fact that no one can tell you what it is. 11:47 PM Sep 30th from web

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Maybe we are the robots that come to life. 10:30 PM Sep 30th from web

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You can run, but you can’t hide. Stop running, for when you are fatigued, things become unclear, and it is not clear to why you are running. 1:36 PM Sep 28th from web

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As I grow through life, ideology casts less truth than pragmatism. 1:10 PM Sep 28th from web

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius 1:00 PM Sep 28th from web

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. – Buddha 12:49 PM Sep 28th from web

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. – William Blake 10:50 AM Sep 25th from web

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, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery 1:46 AM Sep 21st from web

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof 1:46 AM Sep 21st from web

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. – Jean Jacques Rousseau 7:12 PM Sep 20th from web

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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. – Aldous Huxley 10:51 AM Sep 20th from web

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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. – David Hume 10:55 PM Sep 18th from web

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld 12:27 PM Sep 18th from web

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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld 12:21 PM Sep 18th from web

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason. – Voltaire 12:18 PM Sep 18th from web

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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. – Voltaire 12:12 PM Sep 18th from web

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With a mind like mine, wisdom is the only thing that can set me free, for everything else is provisional; knowledge is front seat till death 12:06 PM Sep 18th from web

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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. – Lao Tsu 12:04 PM Sep 18th from web

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Working hard is continuing to do something after you have already got your fill. 8:32 PM Sep 17th from web

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Life is built around risk and reward once morality is completely out of the question. 7:46 PM Sep 17th from web

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Without premise there is no morality. 11:43 AM Sep 17th from web

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major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” – Michael Ellner 2:23 PM Sep 13th from web

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“Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth….. 2:23 PM Sep 13th from web

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Problem. Action. Solution! – David Icke 1:52 PM Sep 12th from web

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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. – Francis Beaumont 2:46 PM Sep 11th from web

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To be truly young, is to be joyful. To be truly old, is to be wise. To be truly young and old, is to be happy. 11:40 AM Sep 10th from web

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Colombus wanted to get rich. – Terence Mckenna 11:19 PM Sep 9th from web

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That government is best which governs least. – Thomas Paine 8:00 PM Sep 9th from web

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“I did nothing but help you, unselfishly! I wanted nothing in return from you except forgiveness for my arrogant statements!” 1:42 PM Sep 9th from web

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Sometimes cleaning in itself is the reason to do it. 1:40 PM Sep 9th from web

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On one hand, abortion is wrong, but if a parent was to have an abortion, maybe they should because they would of made a bad parent anyway. 12:37 PM Sep 9th from web

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If there is a heaven, why are people afraid to see others die? 12:31 PM Sep 9th from web

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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. – David Hume 12:22 PM Sep 9th from web

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You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. – Bill O’Reilly 11:56 AM Sep 9th from web

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We rest our case on the production numbers. – Mel Brooks 11:52 AM Sep 9th from web

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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. – Rene Descartes 11:49 AM Sep 9th from web

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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. – Isaac Newton 11:48 AM Sep 9th from web

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Good enough for the women I date. – Friends Dad 8:09 PM Sep 3rd from web

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If you have even an iota of doubt that the world is not a nihilistic one, be courteous and decent; treat people how you want to be treated. 3:08 PM Aug 29th from web

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we can’t become one until there is no we. 7:32 PM Aug 27th from web

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it takes an intellect to create unhappiness. 7:24 PM Aug 27th from web

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silence is golden but my verbiage is platinum. 7:17 PM Aug 27th from web

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dissolve the ego; imagination strengthens. imagination strengthens; self-preservation increases. self-preservation supplants government. 7:14 PM Aug 27th from web

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diets are for those who have unhealthy lifestyles. 7:10 PM Aug 27th from web

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thinkers are catalysts for the future. 7:09 PM Aug 27th from web

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i know that i am not who i think i am by knowing that i know little of my true nature and the little i know is mere speculation. 5:44 PM Aug 27th from web

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don’t worry about who you are. it’s an exercise in futility to entertain the idea that you are only one entity. 5:36 PM Aug 27th from web

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I’m not a real man. I am a fake man. In fact, I’m a mannequin. If you expect me to do anything for you, don’t be mad. For I am a mannequin. 4:20 PM Aug 27th from web

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only the opposite sex can truly express how great you are. 2:44 PM Aug 27th from web

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one who dances with thought learns new moves. 2:38 PM Aug 27th from web

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the only female who could win my heart, is the one who can compete at conversation. 2:33 PM Aug 27th from web

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go for it, unveil my darkest secrets but know one thing: my condemnation of you will resound more so than any embarrassment could ever. 2:22 PM Aug 27th from web

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there is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. – Friedrich Nietzsche 2:20 PM Aug 27th from web

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the irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche 2:16 PM Aug 27th from web

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche 2:00 PM Aug 27th from web

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the power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. – Lao Tzu 7:45 PM Aug 26th from web

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nothing external to you has any power over you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 7:44 PM Aug 26th from web

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as if you could kill time without injuring eternity – Henry David Thoreau 3:03 PM Aug 24th from web

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blame God and you forsake responsibility. 11:22 AM Aug 22nd from web

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…..those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. – Ernest Hemingway 12:09 PM Aug 21st from web

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“we ought to not follow man, but follow God.”- Thomas Aquinas (paraphrased) 2:21 PM Aug 17th from web

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it is a fool who does not seek wisdom, as all seek to better themselves and those who do not are not wise. 11:05 AM Aug 13th from web

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there’s no happy ending to cocaine. you either die, you go to jail, or else you run out. – Sam Kinison 10:36 AM Aug 12th from web

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a man that cares not of his son cares not of his legacy. 6:24 PM Aug 11th from web

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what is life if everything is known? 6:23 PM Aug 11th from web

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try to think of what you do not usually do when expecting yourself to think the thing you are usually thinking when pained. 6:21 PM Aug 11th from web

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love for another can only live as long as the understanding of their ignorance, as well as your own ignorant assumptions of them. 6:18 PM Aug 11th from web

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when you cannot be courteous others feel alienated. 6:15 PM Aug 11th from web

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education should start before you leave the house. 6:14 PM Aug 11th from web

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a mass murder occurs when selfishness cannot find company. 6:13 PM Aug 11th from web

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babies start as nice and soft and may grow to be soft and nice. 6:11 PM Aug 11th from web

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men schooled by only life have a better grip than men schooled by only institution. 6:09 PM Aug 11th from web

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time spent with someone consistently with another person leads to greater point of views but inversely good habits deteriorate. 5:58 PM Aug 11th from web

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it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle 5:49 PM Aug 11th from web

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when men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. – Plato 8:39 AM Aug 11th from web

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friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. – Francis Bacon 3:06 PM Aug 8th from web

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I’m a reflection of the community. – Tupac Shakur 1:51 PM Aug 8th from web

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you don’t need to know everything but know the good. 1:47 PM Aug 8th from web

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i’ll be there to win, and ill be there to lose as well just not as long. 1:47 PM Aug 8th from web

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the best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. – Friedrich Nietzsche 1:34 PM Aug 8th from web

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to the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Lao Tzu 1:23 PM Aug 8th from web

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a scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. – Lao Tzu 1:21 PM Aug 8th from web

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a man’s character is his fate. – Heraclitus 1:14 PM Aug 8th from web

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It (music) gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything – Plato 1:13 PM Aug 8th from web

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people will not work unless forced to do so by sheer life-and-death necessity. – Lynn Chancer 11:52 AM Aug 5th from web

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The dominant work ethic in the US is founded on the presumption that …. 11:51 AM Aug 5th from web

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if work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. – Mark Twain 11:51 AM Aug 4th from web

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you cannot motivate the best with money. money is just a way to keep score. the best in any field are motivated by passion. – Eric Raymond 11:50 AM Aug 4th from web

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Paul & Percival Goodman estimated that just 5% of work being done would satisfy our minimal needs; food, clothing and shelter. – Bob Black 11:48 AM Aug 4th from web

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the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organized diminution of work. – Bertrand Russell 11:45 AM Aug 4th from web

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a propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – Hume 2:16 PM Aug 3rd from web

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the person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. – Cecil B. DeMille 1:33 PM Aug 3rd from web

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before his or her mental processes are stunted by authoritarian education and operant-conditioned wage-robotry.) – Robert Anton Wilson 9:52 AM Aug 2nd from web

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“Creative potential” is not a panchreston. It refers to the inborn drive to play, to tinker, to explore, and to experiment, shown by every.. 9:52 AM Aug 2nd from web

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arrogance, rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance w/out them. – Laura Marquez 9:50 AM Aug 1st from web

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be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Plato 3:30 PM Jul 31st from web

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knowledge is gained when the ego is dissolved. 9:46 PM Jul 29th from web

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we become proficient in what we think is important. that is why it is important to raise children with good values, but i’m not a parent! 4:35 PM Jul 29th from web

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sometimes the reason to be confident is to find no reason to be otherwise. 11:16 AM Jul 29th from web

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i am a man; confined to the limitations of man. albeit we do not know these limitations, they are set to a degree based on evolution. 10:59 AM Jul 29th from web

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there is no pain that good philosophy can’t cure. 10:55 AM Jul 29th from web

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when the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. – Plato 10:34 AM Jul 29th from web

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man – a being in search of meaning. – Plato 6:31 PM Jul 27th from web

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without silence madness never ceases. 5:35 PM Jul 27th from web

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magic is what applied science can’t explain- science can explain everything but it is not always the best approach, you see. 1:30 PM Jul 25th from web

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the only evil is ignorance. 1:29 PM Jul 25th from web

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those who do not seek glory will never shine. 1:29 PM Jul 25th from web

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you do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can’t talk yourself out of. – Constantine Karamanlis 1:05 PM Jul 24th from web

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I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. – Dennis Rodman 10:58 PM Jul 23rd from web

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maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. – Willie Mays 10:35 PM Jul 23rd from web

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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. – … 12:24 PM Jul 21st from web

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in utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. John Steinbeck 10:43 PM Jul 18th from web

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a man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley 1:00 PM Jul 18th from web

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there is very little that a good dinner can’t fix. 12:55 PM Jul 18th from web

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for to think negatively leaves no room for positivity. 12:53 PM Jul 18th from web

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“Mud” stands for concepts, judgments, desires, expectations–everything that obscures and narrows reality. – Stephen Mitchell 12:49 PM Jul 18th from web

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do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? – The Tao Te Ching 12:14 PM Jul 18th from web

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through understanding we design; look at nature. 11:30 AM Jul 17th from web

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early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. – Laurence J. Peter 9:23 AM Jul 17th from web

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you’re not the contents of your wallet. you’re not your f-ing khakis. you’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. – Tyler Durden 8:51 AM Jul 16th from web

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you’re not your job. you’re not how much money you have in the bank. you’re not the car you drive. – Tyler Durden 12:33 AM Jul 16th from web

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there is no morality without premise. 2:02 PM Jul 15th from web

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without premise there is no morality. 9:51 AM Jul 15th from web

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reset the brain, and don’t reflect in vain. all people are philosophers, it’s just most don’t take it seriously. 6:05 PM Jul 14th from web

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whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. – Sir Francis Bacon 10:42 AM Jul 13th from web

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the passed shaped me, but i’m malleable in attitude so the future that attracts me doesn’t pull me by the neck. 10:30 AM Jul 11th from web

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reality is a seemless, unspeakable something. – Terence Mckenna 1:19 AM Jul 10th from web

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it is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. – Jean Jacques Rousseau 10:15 AM Jul 7th from web

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i’m not gonna end talking to you, im going to end talking to all. 8:51 PM Jul 6th from web

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we are all not innocent, but knowing that doesn’t make it right to do harm. 7:17 PM Jul 6th from web

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lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. – Alan Watts 12:05 PM Jul 5th from web

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the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature. Bacon on the ‘Divine Mind’ 9:09 AM Jul 5th from web

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certain empty dogmas. – Bacon on the ‘human mind’ 6:23 PM Jul 4th from web

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no quality, it is allowed, is absolutely either blamable or praiseworthy. it is all according to its degree. – Hume 10:02 AM Jul 3rd from web

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we think that we deserve rights and are owed something, but if everyone acted humanly we would forget about ideals and act naturally. 12:41 PM Jul 1st from web

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human history is built on the foundation of necessities, and has risen to a useless heap of garbage sold to the unimaginative citizen. 11:22 PM Jun 30th from web

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ifyou know what reality is, then all philosophy stops. 11:11 PM Jun 30th from web

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for if perception is an illusion, can i forsake the illusion of pain and relish the illusion of joy? 11:08 PM Jun 30th from web

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it’s not what you know, but how you feel about what you know. then you know how you feel about what you know and can examine arbitrarily. 11:07 PM Jun 30th from web

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you do not know enough to harm another; if you do, you must live with the consequences or be tormented by the ideas of deeds. 11:04 PM Jun 30th from web

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to hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. – Hume 9:31 AM Jun 30th from web

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sometimes the only thing sweet is suga. 7:47 PM Jun 29th from web

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we have to become tired of war before we wake up with peace. 7:47 PM Jun 29th from web

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It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. – Hume 10:40 AM Jun 29th from web

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my wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. – Rodney Dangerfield 1:08 AM Jun 27th from web

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a purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. – David Hume 5:36 PM Jun 26th from web

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just remember, if you ever become an elder, you won’t make a big deal out of much. good to start now. 12:11 AM Jun 26th from web

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everything in the world is purchased by labor. – David Hume 6:20 PM Jun 25th from web

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know thyself. – Heraclitus (others) 9:34 AM Jun 24th from web

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never underestimate an enemy as his 110 percent could beat your 95 percent. 12:15 PM Jun 23rd from web

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when you stop being afraid to make mistakes, you can win. – LC 12:11 PM Jun 23rd from web

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there is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. – Socrates 11:52 AM Jun 23rd from web

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what you surmise from the things you do is mere trivia compared to their actuality. – LC 11:43 AM Jun 23rd from web

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be true to your work, your word, and your friend. – Henry David Thoreau 11:00 AM Jun 22nd from web

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my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. – Bartrand Hubbard 1:15 PM Jun 21st from web

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well us corpses have absolutely no sense of time. – James Bond 9:09 AM Jun 20th from web

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from the womb to the tomb, presume the unpredictable. – Nas 3:20 PM Jun 18th from web

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value life, but don’t fail to take risks that enrich it. – LC 2:15 PM Jun 16th from web

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all relationships must come to an end. If I find love, may I release myself from attachment; not create misery but still bask in joy – LC 12:02 PM Jun 16th from web

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if I’m free from assumption, will my instincts be dampened? – LC 11:58 AM Jun 16th from web

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not all analyses contain a good reason for reason itself. – LC 7:19 PM Jun 15th from web

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the unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates 7:18 PM Jun 15th from web

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for it is so; emotion skews judgment; skew, as to find reason thru the intellect to persuade myself to a side that serves my emotion. – LC 7:17 PM Jun 15th from web

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when faced with a dilemma, most times it doesn’t take much thought to know what to do. Simply, do the right thing. – Lawrence Chan 8:35 AM Jun 15th from web

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i see the beauty in others because I see the ugliness in myself. – LC 11:18 PM Jun 14th from web

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a true philosopher knows when to stop. – LC 10:14 AM Jun 14th from web

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i’maBird. I do what I do; I have to do. Why explain why I do? Merely arise out of speculation. The winds usher me through. I’maBird. – LC 9:45 AM Jun 14th from web

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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu 9:17 AM Jun 14th from web

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sometimes talent stems from the ignorance; furthermore, their confidence rises do to the lack of intelligent perspective. – LC 11:31 AM Jun 12th from web

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candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. – Ogden Nash 11:46 PM Jun 11th from web

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giving in to nature’s demands is something the proudest man cannot resist. – LC 1:15 AM Jun 11th from web

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sometimes we have to think more like a child to fulfill being an adult. – LC 9:59 AM Jun 10th from web

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the idea that there is rooted importance in ideas keeps the philosopher going. – LC 9:52 AM Jun 10th from web

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people need to be entertained so often that they create miseries to dwell in. – LC 6:51 PM Jun 9th from web

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rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. – Zhuang Zi 12:03 PM Jun 9th from web

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not quite what you expected, right? – The Oracle 2:22 PM Jun 7th from web

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the miserable make poor philosophers. – LC 12:48 PM Jun 7th from web

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even the hated must be fed. – LC 8:23 PM Jun 5th from web

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you can’t change those who don’t want to. the sky is enough inspiration, so how can your words move when the clouds have not already? – LC 2:27 PM Jun 5th from web

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don’t worry if you’ve built your castles in the air. They’re where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.- Henry David Thoreau 9:03 AM Jun 5th from web

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don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph W, Emerson 8:56 AM Jun 5th from web

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. – Confucius 8:40 PM Jun 3rd from web

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loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain 8:32 PM Jun 3rd from web

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onion, fish and macaroni don’t really go together…. 8:30 PM Jun 3rd from web

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A Klondike Bar? What would you do for a bomb dyke star? 7:13 PM Jun 3rd from web

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such a dirty game. – Tupac 6:41 PM Jun 3rd from web

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the bigger you build the bonfire of understanding, the more darkness is revealed to your startled eye. – Terence Mckenna 9:16 AM Jun 1st from web

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to be, or not to be, that is the question. – Shakespeare 9:10 AM May 30th from web

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friends don’t let friends drive drunk. friends let enemies drive drunk. – Lawrence Chan 3:20 PM May 26th from web

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speak to impress and fail to inspire. – Lawrence Chan 3:10 PM May 26th from web

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if anxiety didn’t grow old, then we would forever give it attention. – Lawrence Chan 3:06 PM May 26th from web

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If the parent doesn’t demand something from their child. the child will supply nothing to anyone. – Lawrence Chan 3:04 PM May 26th from web

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sometimes, all you got to do is show up. – Lawrence Chan 3:01 PM May 26th from web

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we talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It’s time to be like them, as strong as them. – Tupac 7:32 PM May 25th from web

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those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. – William Blake, 2:15 PM May 24th from web

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the laborer is worthy of his reward. – Bible, 1 Timothy v. 18 2:02 PM May 24th from web

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the gods help them that help themselves. – Aesop 1:58 PM May 24th from web

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the poet, the artist, the sleuth – whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial… – Alfred North Whitehead 1:52 PM May 24th from web

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truth springs from argument amongst friends. – Hume 8:36 AM May 23rd from web

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be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. – Hume 5:47 PM May 22nd from web

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drink milk, and you may pass gas 5:44 PM May 22nd from web

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why we scared to die? death is gloomy, life is roomy. conscious when not alive? life is gloomy, death is roomy. 8:40 AM May 22nd from web

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get hung by the soap on the rope or before the shower. 11:57 PM May 21st from web

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you wanna die dirty or clean? me and my team. be the ones to strike first; look at the proof in the hearse. 11:56 PM May 21st from web

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it’s fascinating, and somehow it does appear that there must be a change of some kind looming. 7:42 AM May 21st from web

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exercise the imagination; not the solidification of our own egos. 9:38 AM May 20th from web

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emphasize the journey of thought, and not so much the goal itself. 8:09 AM May 20th from web

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are you skimming life? or are you reading it? 11:26 PM May 19th from web

Other quotes taken out of chronological order:

Every step that Kobe Bryant takes to the basket successfully, I take another step towards the toilet disgustingly.

It is proof that you don’t need to have class to be a champion.

Sharks

Our minds are like islands that sit lonely in the middle of the Ocean.

The Island sits.

Other Islands are nearby, but seem so far away.

Our thoughts are like water.

Water nourishes.

It also separates.

The Ocean fosters many funny fish, bumbling crabs, fickle whales, playful dolphins and vicious sharks.

Some of these things are naturally scary and some of them are naturally pleasant.

Humans are like intentions and inhabit the island.

Fisherman enter the mercurial waters to look for food.

They fish when hungry.

Some bring back an abundance, and some bring back a morsel.

Some enter and never come back.

Either way, something is obtained whether it be corporeal or imaginary.

The Island sits.

Anger

To quote David Hume:

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. – David Hume

We invoke ideas to create emotion in ourselves, and vise versa- we create images to bring emotions to our mental forefront, as to form ideas for many reasons; we also manipulate images and ideas out of temperment (See Sir Francis Bacon’s Idols of the Cave) because we of anger and it distorts our perception.

We add more and more ideas and thoughts so our emotions gain staggering momentum, and our images provide a great magnitude. We need to be more careful about what we place importance on in terms of our opinion on ideas.

We become angry a lot of the time because we feel we must become angry; it is not entirely necessary to do so. If something bothers us we put a lot of emphasis on victimization and how we are somehow “chosen” to receive this misfortune. We sometimes think that we do not want to be angry, but on the contrary, we decide to do be angry. Of course anger is natural, warranted and a part of human experience, but most anger we generate is over something trivial. We enjoy our anger! But we also become miserable from it! We enjoy this misery because it gives us a sense of self, it is a venting of emotion; an explosion is going on inside us.

Knowing the reason behind our anger is paramount in reducing it. Reading up on psychology allows us to gain a better understanding about how anger functions. Asking ourselves questions and giving honest answers is key to realization about the nature, reason, existence, and power of anger. We can ask ourselves the following questions:

1. Am I truly angry? Is it natural, or am I fabricating it?
2. Do I have a good reason to be angry about this? Is it worth venting or is it something that I am creating?
3. Why is it existing right now? Is it just my problem? Am i projecting my ideas onto someone else?
4. Does this anger have real power over me?

Next time, try not to be so angry.

We are not innocent

We are all not innocent, but knowing that doesn’t make it right to do harm.

Harm done to others is based on the lack of peace inside oneself, and driven through the false idea that others deserve it. One believes another deserves harm because that person did something wrong, or maybe they assume that person is not innocent in thought and/or in action. This may be the case, But we must treat people with respect as though they are renewed daily. There is a time for justice, but a lot of our judgments come from our own prejudices, and we believe we are in the right. Other people have the right to behave as they like, as long as it is not hurting others to further their agenda and soul. Not because this is morally correct, but our essential nature is to manifest harmony in oneself, and unduly harm is born out of inner imbalances; true, we harm others for personal gain outside of judgment, and these situations are conditional and complex.

Through forgiveness we allow others to change, but we do not owe time to others. That is a gift.

“God made man in his own image.”

This statement taken from The Bible is something that I wanted to reflect on. To take this notion as-is, written, is to assume that God has a thinking mind; out of his own agenda and out of reason and understanding, created man. I choose not to look at it this way at all times.

I first want to first invoke and briefly translate the quote by Eckart Tolle: “Man made God in his own image.” This statement, to me, suggests that man’s mind looking at itself, creates the image of God out of assumption that a greater power exists with human tendency. To a major degree this is true, but I want to recapitulate The Bible’s statement: ‘God Made Man In His Own Image’. Once you take it literally you give up any further discussion about its meaning and believe it blindly; basing it on prior dogma.

There is another way to look at this. God used here, if you will, represents the “all-encompassing energy” and this energy has its own way of doing things; a kind of overmind. It conceives reality (it itself is reality) by evolving this physical matter- our brains, so it has an angle to perceive from. This I believe, could be the reason why Jesus “called himself God” in Catholicism. So God in this instance, is not a single deity that makes human-like decisions (decisions based on judgment, justice, personal gain, impulse, etc.), but a force that has a functionality outside of our scope of true understanding, and we are the vehicle- a reflection of God. This energy, and this reflection is being filtered through our brain as to be used as a tool for some unknown reason (we can speculate about those reasons in another blog).

I will sum this up by asking the question: “What is the best way for a mind to further progression in the state of affairs to which it holds up high in regard to reason?” Simple, create more minds!