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| 920e784 | So it can be particularly helpful to keep in mind from moment to moment that it is not so much the stressors in our lives but how we see them and what we do with them, how we are in relationship to them, that determines how much we are at their mercy. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| bcfa28a | The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 3b40e1a | as long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| b65bfa8 | Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 7d6d2fd | in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ad0288f | If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being even-handed and clear, do you manifest these qualities in your daily life? This is the level of intentionality which is required to keep your meditation practice vital, | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 3ce87e8 | TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?" | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| d482e16 | Live with nature In the present Above time | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| e81b11d | Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. | time | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 0860838 | It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going a.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| b1d7673 | If we are unaware of what we are doing a good deal of the time, and we don't particularly like the way things turn out in our lives, perhaps it's time to pay closer attention, to be more in touch, to observe the choices we make and their consequences down the road. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 7bfd998 | The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| e04c54a | write down this quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn and put it up on your wall: "Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel." | Dan Harris | ||
| 9845a5f | For Whom the Snob Trolls | June Casagrande | ||
| a08be04 | I hope that, by this point, you're feeling a little less intimidated by the meanies, because I've got some bad news: Meanies come in many forms, not just human. They can be not only animal, but also mineral. In rare cases, they can even be vegetable, but we can talk about William F. Buckley some other time. | June Casagrande | ||
| 2505fdc | Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting grounds for a long string of wives who never seemed to stay married to him past age twenty-eight. Rumor also had it that a few years later he was canned from his job mid some rather unpleasant allegations, but we journalists can't succumb to rumor and conjecture when nonspecific innuendo is so much more titillating. | June Casagrande | ||
| d6c2a39 | He needed to "kill his darlings"--Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work." | June Casagrande | ||
| 7633e9c | If Readers have prejudices, that's the writing world we live in. We must decide how to navigate it. We can't please all the Readers all the time and we shouldn't try. but we don't get to create our Readers in our own image, either. We don't get to tell them what to value or enjoy. We can write in a way true to our own voice and our own ideas of beauty and substance, and we can hope that some readers appreciate it. But, even when we aim to s.. | June Casagrande | ||
| 14740e6 | I've met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I've even survived the attention of the Auditors (when I was young, foolish, and didn't know any better). But I've never lost a classified file before, and I don't ever want there to be a first time. I force myself to sit down | Charles Stross | ||
| f4f5916 | Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all, | Charles Stross | ||
| f39294d | There's a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it's just inhaled three tons of snuff. | Charles Stross | ||
| 6ad40f2 | you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?" | Charles Stross | ||
| b353f1a | A mother's love--" "Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power." | power | Charles Stross | |
| c16ce61 | It's not as if he's had much of a chance until now, but somehow he has internalized the ur-cultural narrative: you grow up, go to university, get a job, meet Ms. Right, get married, settle down, have kids, grow old together . . . it's like some sort of checklist. Or maybe a list of epic quests you've got to complete while level-grinding in a game you're not allowed to quit, with no respawns and no cheat codes. | Charles Stross | ||
| 038d9d7 | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker. | Charles Stross | ||
| 04e1ae8 | Growing old is natural," growls the old woman. "When you've lived long enough for all your ambitions to be in ruins, friendships broken, lovers forgotten or divorced acrimoniously, what's left to go on for? If you feel tired and old in spirit, you might as well be tired and old in body. Anyway, wanting to live forever is immoral. Think of all the resources you're taking up that younger people need! Even uploads face a finite data storage li.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 03fca61 | When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they're agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers--not for themselves, I might add, we never run a server node for any given game on the same host as a client for that game, that would be asking for trouble--but at the back end, we're in the processor arbitrage market. The game programmers' biggest problems are mainta.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 8529de3 | Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers. | Charles Stross | ||
| 63ccf68 | We have chickens! And ostriches--they're like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur--that's like a really huge chicken, with teeth--but for architectural reasons we can't let it roam free just yet. | megafauna would-pet | Charles Stross | |
| ac8994e | silly me, I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins. | Charles Stross | ||
| 95e6e82 | We developed differently, of course, but we all had the same problem." The yawning hole in the center of our badly designed lives. "How can you love yourself if you can't love somebody else?" | Charles Stross | ||
| 79f5e43 | Superman, Iron Man, Batman"--Flyaway Hair winces visibly--"you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals." | Charles Stross | ||
| bb362f6 | As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him; in | Charles Stross | ||
| 33617d2 | This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion. | Charles Stross | ||
| 31429bd | The final vanity. This whole episode has never been about us. Can't you see? If this is happening now, it must have happened over and over. Who knows how many other planets we lost in the past, consumed as weapons of forgotten wars? Maybe all we see, the planets and stars and galaxies, is just the debris of huge wars - on and on, up to scales we can barely imagine. And we're just weeds growing in the rubble. Tell that to the Prime Minister... | Charles Stross | ||
| 827ef84 | Maybe solitude is the key to it all. A galactic isolation imposed by the vast gulfs between the stars, the lightspeed limit. As a species develops you might have a brief phase of individuality, of innovation and technological achievement. But then, when the universe gives you nothing back, you turn in on yourself, and slide into the milky embrace of eusociality - the hive. "But what then? How would it be for a mass mind to emerge, alone? Ma.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 790b50f | Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it's semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty | humour | Charles Stross | |
| 5b45264 | Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever. | Charles Stross | ||
| 12f88f2 | Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb! | Charles Stross | ||
| 97ffc9e | Identity is theft, don't trust anyone whose state vector hasn't forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera. | identity-theft | Charles Stross | |
| 40512c0 | Is not happening yet," contributes Boris. "Singularity implies infinite rate of change achieved momentarily. Future not amenable thereafter to prediction by presingularity beings, right? So has not happened." | Charles Stross | ||
| 34cd49e | And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted. | Charles Stross | ||
| ab5e7ac | A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery. | ownership personhood property slavery upload | Charles Stross | |
| 4a6ae78 | Look, we know, now, that a singularity doesn't turn into a voracious predator that eats all the dumb matter in its path, triggering a phase change in the structure of space--at least, not unless they've done something very stupid to the structure of the false vacuum, somewhere outside our current light cone. | Charles Stross |