Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged DIY, improvement, Marcus Aurelius, problems, Psychology, self help, TIA on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, stoic philosopher (121 - 180 CE)
As emperor for about two decades of the greatest empire until modern [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged Bhagavad-Gita, future, hectic, helter-skelter, life, TIA, urban on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world.
- Bhagavad-Gita, Hindu holy narrative, about 5000 years old
Well, that sounds like fancy-worded crap, doesn’t it?
Until you think about it.
Our world is filled with ignorant people. They aren’t ignorant of their own choice. They simply were never taught to be [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged art, bliss, Campbell, enjoy, love, music, TIA, work, writing on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you
ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that,
you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and
they open [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, nature, tagged Antarctica, Arctic, freezing, ice, melting, snow, thaw, TIA on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Before winter leaves the northern hemisphere I’ll take this opportunity to tell you a bit about the white stuff that has been lying two feet thick in my yard for the past few months.
First of all, by now most of it is ice, either individual crystals or packed solid, though it still looks like snow. [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged archaeology, asteroid, Carlyle, change, Clovis, comet, extinction, future, North America, TIA on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
- Thomas Carlyle
While it’s true that the casting of a pebble by one person literally alters the centre of gravity of both the planet he is on and the universe, neither takes notice of [...]
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Gold doesn’t do much, it just sits there looking pretty. Not its beauty so much as its inertness gives gold a large part of the value we place on the mineral.
Gold isn’t unique to earth by any means. Our moon, which in the early days after formation of our planet was smashed off it and [...]
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Gold doesn’t do much, it just sits there looking pretty. Not its beauty so much as its inertness gives gold a large part of the value we place on the mineral.
Gold isn’t unique to earth by any means. Our moon, which in the early days after formation of our planet was smashed off it and [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged future, life, people, Psychology, reality, Stewart, TIA on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.
- Jimmy Stewart in Harvey, 1950
In the movie, Harvey was a giant, man-sized rabbit that could be seen only by Jimmy Stewart’s character. Harvey was either a figment of Jimmy’s character’s insane imagination (as his opponents tried [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged boogies, consciousness, dreaming, nightmares, Plato, unconscious on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato, philosopher, pupil of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
Harkening back to our prehistoric past, as social but uncivilized dwellers of forest and savannah, we required a degree of caution [...]
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Posted in Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged drugs, education, gas, health, oil, plastics, sugar, teaching on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
If you want to know how powerful the pharmaceutical industry is, such that it gets the nickname Big Pharma, ask yourself why good health practices are not taught in schools and supported by curriculum and resources. Our education systems teach kids how to be good employees, but not how to be good people, with good [...]
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