Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged galaxies, God, Hugo, mind, mystery, mystic, science, soul, thought, TIA, universe on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les MisérablesIt’s impossible at this time to know what Victor Hugo meant by “the human soul.” As many different concepts exist for it, [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged goodness, help, hope, Kempis, life, meaning, needs, peace, people, social, Socrates, TIA on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates, Ancient Athenian philosopher (470-399 BC)
Many people claim they wish they could change the world, but [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged choices, Evans, heaven, hell, hero, kindness, lie, life, love, people, sleep, TIA, wisdom on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
While I always have a book on my bedside table, waiting to be to read before I go to sleep, rarely do I have one that so absorbs my mind that sleep eludes me while I continue to turn pages. Richard Paul Evans’ novel The Gift is one.
The Gift is admirable not just for its [...]
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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, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged brain, emotions, help, hope, life, Peale, plague, positive, senses, TIA, war on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
It’s almost too simple to imagine that we live in a world we create for ourselves within our own mind. But it’s a fact.
Few would disagree that [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Spirituality, tagged Africa, AIDS, future, hope, India, Indonesia, Mother Teresa, starvation, TIA on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
- Mother Teresa
The world is not made up of you, the people you know and people like you, people with your biases and prejudices, your tastes and preferences, [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Adrian Welsh, celebration, death, hope, inspiration, life, living, love, respect, TIA on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“Cancer isn’t about dying, it’s realizing that life is worth living.”
- Adrian Welsh
How could one young man have touched so many lives so deeply, have garnered the love of everyone he knew?
Adrian Welsh died after a four year battle with cancer on March 13, 2008. He had celebrated his twenty-third birthday just a few days [...]
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who
is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
In my search for God over the past several decades I have concluded that evidence exists all over our [...]
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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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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Frohm, life, meaning, psychoanalysis, Psychology, social, TIA on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found–in [...]
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