January 2010
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that,...”
– Archetypal Practices for Collective Wisdom - Thomas Hurley (via ferananda)
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“Evolution keeps bumping upward to new levels of creativity and surprise. We’re...”
– The Metacurrency Project | infrastructure for the open source economy and true community wealth (via ferananda)
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you...”
– J.D. Salinger (1919-2010), R.I.P. (via myserendipities)
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“When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the...”
– Timothy Ray Miller
“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Letters to a Young Poet (via sonsryan) (via quote-book)
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a...”
– Sun Tzu (via reluctantbuddha)
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“You are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. Before you...”
– Dan Millman
“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or...”
– Voltaire (via @kcarruthers)
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Zen Story: Is That So?
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. ‘Is...
“Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via quote-book) (via rocketcat)
“..what is most amazing about networks is that they completely transform the way...”
– JAMES FOWLER:
Seed Salon: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi + James Fowler § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
(via wildcat2030)
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“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure...”
– Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha)
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“You see things and say, ‘Why?”, but I dream things and say,...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via Iconic88)
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via @kk)
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of...”
– Albert Einstein (via @yrlocalmarkets)
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does…”
– William James (via myserendipities)
“To seek happiness outside ourselves is like trying to lasso a cloud.”
– Paramhansa Yogananda
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the...”
– Buddha #quote (via @zigiprimo)
Zen Story: Finding a Diamond on a Muddy Road
Gudo was the emperor’s teacher of his time. Nevertheless, he used to travel alone as a wandering mendicant. Once when he was on his was to Edo, the cultural and political center of the shogunate, he approached a little village named Takenaka. It was evening and a heavy rain was falling. Gudo was thoroughly wet. His straw sandals were in pieces. At a farmhouse near the village he noticed...
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“In time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell (via @coyopa)
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
– Erin Majors
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus
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“Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via reluctantbuddha)
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“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move...”
– Archimedes (via @Iconic88)
“What can you ever really know of other people’s souls—of their temptations,...”
– C.S. Lewis (via reluctantbuddha)
"I only talk from my heart, So open yours when...
armandoandres:
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“Live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and you connect with the...”
– Deepak Chopra (via @divinetweets)
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in...”
– Gandhi
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WatchTED Talks: Dan Buettner - How to live to be 100+
To find the path to long life and health, National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
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Zen Story: A Cup of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and...
A Wider Vision →
Our culture teaches us to see with eyes held to the tightest of focuses and hear the world chopped up into tiny things like words and syllables. With these tiny slices of reality we try to grasp the world but we end up touching only a minuscule bit of it.
Waiting for us just outside these limiting fixations is such a wealth of knowledge, wisdom and beauty that we can scarcely imagine it. But we...
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Blogging Stats, Facts & Data | 2009 Blog...
acatinatree:
Posted by Kate Carruthers to thoughtstream December 10, 2009 70 Usable Stats From The 2009 State Of The Blogosphere Posted by Adam Singer in Blogging, Marketing and Public Relations The annual state of the blogosphere report provided by Technorati always provides a ton of interesting...
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“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,...”
– Anatole France (via @eadvocate)
December 2009
74 posts
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“Today, we possess sufficient cultural, economic and technological resources to...”
– Paolo Cirio
notthisbody: Open Society Structures Algorithm Tryptic
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“Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. Next year’s...”
– T. S. Eliot