January 2011
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December 2010
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic...”
– Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In...”
– Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
“In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,...”
– Rabi’ah al Adawiyya
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it....
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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“All political horror and social unhappiness comes from trading what we want most...”
– The Free School
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A man?
curbsideprophet:
A man carries cash. A man looks out for those around him — woman, friend, stranger. A man can cook eggs. A man can always find something good to watch on television. A man makes things — a rock wall, a table, the tuition money. Or he rebuilds — engines, watches, fortunes. He passes along expertise, one man to the next. Know-how survives him. This is immortality. A man can speak...
The girl who doesn't get nicely dressed up...
Growing
We grow in so many ways each day: physically, mentally, emotionally, as things around us change. How we respond to change inspires and sometimes dictates the ways we grow, and how we change in the process.
It’s not a quaterlife crisis, but simply growing up, and growing out of doing the same things, and expecting different results. The one thing I do have, and appreciate is the respect I...
A Gentleman’s Guide to Staying Cool in the 21st...
The world is a hard place to survive. Falling in love. Broken hearts. Standing up for what you believe. Arachnids and an entire week dedicated to sharks. Earthquakes and economic meltdowns. Nine dollar beer nights at your favorite pub, and fashion statements that should have died years ago returning from the grave. It’s not easy to be alive through all this, let alone survive it as a...