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I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Sunday Evening Ponderable
"The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."
--Anaïs Nin
Sunday Afternoon Ponderable
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”
--Deepak Chopra
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
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