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Pawel Kuczynski
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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’ A thought can advance your life in the right direction only when it answers questions which were asked by your soul. A thought which was first borrowed from someone else and then accepted by your mind and memory does not really much influence your life, and sometimes leads you in the wrong direction. Read less, study less, but think more.
Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know’ .
Tolstoy
‘Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge’ . (Jean Jaques Rousseau)
My law school friends used to always joke that the summer holidays after we graduated were our halcyon days.
If there isn’t already, there will soon be a hipster dress-up pack, complete with existentialist quotes from Satre and an espresso cup.
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Our brutally ugly politics imperils the ideal of public service
The health of any polity depends as much on its leaders and citizens as it does on its laws and institutions. Its members must be prepared to think beyond themselves and to make sacrifices for a common good.
It is now hard to articulate a sense of common ground in this country, however. Politics as it is currently being practised offers few openings for consensus or compromise. A bitter adversarialism has closed off any chance of this - at least for a while.
If there is a problem with elites in Australia, it concerns this abandonment of civic decorum.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/our-brutally-ugly-politics-imperils-the-ideal-of-public-service-20121202-2aowg.html#ixzz2DzHZq9JJ
Polite cat
That little headbutt in the second one gave me diabetes.
“Excuse me, human. I would like a petting, please. Yes, thank you.”
“Um, excuse me, human? Human? Ah yes, I’d like another petting please. Ah, thank you.”
Always reblog Polite Cat.
Goodness.
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I Love Books fine art print by Mandy Bryant
Sia | Breathe Me
Ouch, I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found
Yeah. I think that I might break
Lost myself again and, I feel unsafeBe my friend,
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me, I am small, and needy
Warm me up, and breathe me
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.
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Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don’t analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.
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