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Saturday, November 03, 2012
Saturday Afternoon Ponderable
"It is fantasy to believe that people can disappoint you. The only thing people can do is what they can do.
They may say they can do something else. They may want to do something else, particularly if that something else will please someone they hold in high regard. We go merrily along with people, believing they will do what they say, even when their track record, demonstrated inability, or exhibited lack of interest tells us otherwise.
In the end, we say they disappointed us.
No. We are disappointed that we put our faith in this person despite our better judgment.
People always show you who they are."
--Iyanla Vanzant
They may say they can do something else. They may want to do something else, particularly if that something else will please someone they hold in high regard. We go merrily along with people, believing they will do what they say, even when their track record, demonstrated inability, or exhibited lack of interest tells us otherwise.
In the end, we say they disappointed us.
No. We are disappointed that we put our faith in this person despite our better judgment.
People always show you who they are."
Friday, November 02, 2012
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Thursday Evening Ponderable
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
— Clive S. Lewis
Just finished up the annual Halloween block party, felt like posting a ponderable...
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
--Alan Watts
*Side note: I'm trying to figure out why, when I post a "Ponderable", there are so many hits on it. Help me out with that by perhaps leaving a comment...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Tuesday Afternoon Ponderable
"Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation."
--Lao Tzu
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday Evening Ponderable
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
--Paramhansa Yogananda
Monday Afternoon Ponderable
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
--Leonardo da Vinci
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