January 2011
“While light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually...”
– Sri Swami Sivinanda, Thought Power
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“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the...”
– Ram Dass
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“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
– Ram Dass
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“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else...”
– Noam Chomsky
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A Third of 9-Month-Olds Already Obese or... →
“ “As for me, she said, I seek not the Lover that completes me, that was good for...”
– Aubrey De Grey cited in Wildcat, Longevity Its for Lovers A brief interview with Aubrey De Grey, Polytopia, Nov 2010 (
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“The most exquisite paradox - As soon as you give it all up, you can have it all....”
– Ram Dass
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From the world of passions returning to the world of passions: There is a moments pause. If it rains, let it rain; if the wind blows, let it blow.
- Ikkyu
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
“The true work of art is born from the ‘artist’: a mysterious, enigmatic, and...”
– Wassily Kandinsky
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“We now live in a country in which the bottom 40 percent (120 million people)...”
– Sam Harris from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
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To win over Afghan locals, American contractor... →
Every culture has its dark secrets, the practices that many people on the outside would frown on or shudder at. There’s Mormons and polygamy. Hindus and sati. Muslims and virgin brides. And many other cultures that have very specific practices associated with them.
The list is endless but it’s also not comprehensive. Not all Mormons practice polygamy — in fact a comparatively few...
“At some point, you have to face up to your place in American society. To find...”
– Arthur Ashe, 1981
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“Not a moment passes that isn’t spiritual practice.”
– — Dan Millman
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December 2010
“The sage is indifferent. He does not hanker after more pleasure, nor does he...”
– Ramesh S. Balsekar
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Awareness of impermanence and appreciation of our human potential will give us a sense of urgency that we must use every precious moment.
fuckyeahzenmind:
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and...”
– — Winona LaDuke (
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“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime,...”
– Joachim Prinz
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– — Neil Gaiman
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“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been...”
– Joseph Campbell
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Italy to begin ban on plastic bags in shops
A ban on plastic bags is coming into effect in Italy, which has one of the highest rates of consumption of the bags in Europe.
The ban begins in shops across Italy on 1 January, with only biodegradable, cloth or paper bags to be offered.
Italians use 20 billion plastic bags a year - more than 300 per person
read more here——-about time…..—-
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Wikileaks 'should lead to greater transparency' ... →
“A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the...”
– Napoleon Hill
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The Beautiful Truth (please watch this if you have... →
“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Every night at one a.m., lying in bed, I’d hear a woman sing the most beautiful...”
– Craig Ferguson, American On Purpose
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