Tag: wisdom
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June 04, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
After menopause, many women begin to favor the color purple. For some, it might be a rebellion against the conformity in dress they had to adhere to during their younger years, for others it represents . . . more
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October 03, 2007 02:19 AM EDT --
ALL RELIGIONS SPEAK ABOUT DEATH DURING THIS LIFE ON EARTH. Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken. . . . more
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June 24, 2006 09:58 PM EDT --
I'm just an old cowboy he'd say
broken down in my younger days
I gave away the best of me
Now all I have left is what you see
His worn down boots had traveled miles
but I knew . . . more
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July 16, 2006 12:25 AM EDT --
I close my eyes
listening to your schoolgirl prattle
your effervescent words
bulldozing, a rolling fog of fears
- what monuments of shadowy gaps
between the said and the unsaid
you conjure . . . more
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April 17, 2007 07:04 AM EDT --
What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Do you use it~and ~has it changed your life~if so.......how?
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August 28, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
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October 09, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering . . . more
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February 02, 2008 02:39 PM EST --
I placed the title in quotes because this is something my father said constantly before he became ill. Now, I find in dealing with his illness that I repeat this often in my head as a mantra when I can . . . more
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July 04, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
It's been a while since I published my last list for all you knowledge seekers.
1. Technically snow is considered a mineral.
2. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn . . . more
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March 09, 2007 12:23 AM EST --
George: Grace, those are beautiful flowers. Where did they come from?
Gracie: Don't you remember, George? You said that if I went to visit Clara Bagley
in the hospital I should be sure to take . . . more
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March 09, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough
blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin . . . more
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September 10, 2007 10:17 AM EDT --
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far . . . more
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September 12, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
I have always loved this quote. I hope it inspires you too!
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October 05, 2007 11:15 PM EDT --
Through spiritual discipline the entire body becomes the receptacle of divine sensations. A well-conducted discipline makes it possible to identify and recognize at its base a unique sensation which is . . . more
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October 07, 2007 12:07 PM EDT --
The Master said,
'How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, . . . more
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November 20, 2007 09:52 PM EST --
we can never make another love us
but, we do have the power
to make ourselves loveable.
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March 05, 2008 01:09 PM EST --
Thich Nhat Hanh said this:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every . . . more
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March 31, 2008 11:56 AM EDT --
Again something I found in the Farmers almanac too beautiful not to share.
Legend has it that the Portuguese attached this poem to the trees in their forests:
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April 25, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself
Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
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July 03, 2008 02:55 PM EDT --
From time to time a word of wisdom pops into my head and I feel compelled to write it down. I don't like keeping a diary - never did and never will. Thank goodness for Gather ; now . . . more
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