Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Camus, children, development, emotional, learning, parents, school, social, teachers, TIA on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960)
Well, I do, Albert, so where are you so I can refute your statement?
Seriously, Camus was right, some people do go to extensive lengths to be considered normal by others. But why?
We are social animals. As such we have [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged deity, exciting, feeling, God, help, introspection, religion, space, special, TIA, Williamson on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The highest level of prayer is not prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined.
- Marianne Williamson, inspirational author and speaker (b. 1952)
In my experience, prayer is a mystery for [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged death, disabled, divorce, employment, Fosdick, help, helpless, TIA on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman (1878-1969)
While this advice holds great importance to those about to retire or who will retire within the next 20 years, it also has great importance on a broader scale.
In the middle decades of the past century, when retirement with some [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged Armstrong, death, delight, happiness, life, Litchfield, love, survival, TIA on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
- P. W. Litchfield
As a group, surely those who have survived near-death experiences–such as recovering from a severe version of cancer–must be the happiest and self-fulfilled people around.
Here’s one [...]
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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 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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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged breakdown, business, cancer, death, fear, illness, stress, TIA, work on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I am sufficiently exhausted that I can understand and empathize with people who want to die.
What I have trouble understanding is why people fear dying. I don’t.
Following a traumatic event in my life in 1997, I developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). For people with the most severe cases of CFS, just getting out of [...]
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