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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 746a966 | Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 7beb2f2 | Gandhi said that only people with a high regard for the law were qualified for civil disobedience. | Mark Shepard | ||
| ab47039 | Paradox is any self-contradictory proposition that, when investigated, may prove to be well-founded or true. Once understood, it opens the gateway to higher wisdom. But how can contradictory principles both be true? As the Buddhist Riddle of Five Truths puts it: "It is right. It is wrong. It is both right and wrong. It is neither right nor wrong. All exist simultaneously." Charles Dickens expressed the paradox of his era, equally true today.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 7eeb500 | For example, you have a cold now; its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is. | Dan Millman | ||
| 6d0c2aa | Act happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. | Dan Millman | ||
| 8115170 | The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. --Meister Eckehart | Dan Millman | ||
| c8f477b | Life develops what it demands. | Dan Millman | ||
| 833f376 | In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead." Dan Millman" | Angeline Fortin | ||
| 79dede8 | Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which -- like any pain -- signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 06782e9 | Lao-tzu advised, "As soon as you have a thought, laugh at it," because reality is not what we think. We perceive the world through a window colored by beliefs, interpretations, and associations. We see things not as they are but as we are. The same brain that enables us to contemplate philosophy, solve math equations, and create poetry also generates a stream of static known as discursive thoughts, which seem to arise at random, bubbling up.. | Dan Millman | ||
| a5b1e9e | Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal. | Dan Millman | ||
| 9ad1fd4 | People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival. | Dan Millman | ||
| 207d2d3 | master...Fear | Dan Millman | ||
| 5b59bd3 | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust | Dan Millman | ||
| d986d99 | Ki ruhazta rad a felelosseget? Ki adott bolcsesseget, hogy tudd, kinek kell elnie, es kinek kell meghalnia, es milyen uton-modon? Ki vagy te, hogy tudd, mi jar Isten fejeben? | judgement life-and-death ways-of-god wisdom | Dan Millman | |
| 93a1d4a | Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher. | Dan Millman | ||
| 5fef295 | moment, | Dan Millman | ||
| 250d93e | Humor, in its highest sense, transcends the momentary tension release of laughter, and expands into a profound sense of ease and a relaxed approach to life's occasional challenges, large or small. When you view your world through this lens of transcendent humor, as if from a distant peak, you discover that life is a game you can play as if it matters-- with a peaceful heart and a warrior's spirit. You can remain engaged with the world but a.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 5ef2324 | But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judicious action if we are to be successful in our leadership for peace. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 49de266 | Dad once defined leadership as the art of persuading people to do what they should have done in the first place. If they bullheadedly refuse to take this advice, there is not much the leader can do, in a free society. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 48b39aa | George Elsey put it succinctly: "You can't sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn't any public opinion. The public doesn't know anything about it; they haven't heard about it. The President must decide what he is going to do and do it, and attempt to educate the public to the reasons for his action." | Margaret Truman | ||
| 4c58c79 | Well all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 320205d | and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God right off. | Margaret Truman | ||
| a74e1f6 | Dad was not enjoying himself very much either, as is evident from this comment to his mother and sister: "We had a nice time at the Fair if you can call it a nice time to be followed around by thirty newsmen and photographers everywhere and to be mobbed every time an appearance is made . . . I had to ride in an open car and give 'em a Cheshire Cat grin and almost freeze stiff but the onlookers seemed to enjoy it." From the fair Dad drove to.. | Margaret Truman | ||
| abb4d73 | I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before the law. . . . In giving the Negro the rights which are theirs we are only acting in accord with our ideals of a true democracy. . . . The majority of our Negro people find but cold comfort in shanties and tenements. Surely, as free men, they are entitled to something better than this. . . . It is our duty to see that the Negro.. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 51aa2e5 | I am obligated to the Big Boss, a man of his word, but he gives it very seldom and usually on a sure thing. But he is not a trimmer. He, in times past, owned a bawdy house, a saloon and gambling establishment, was raised in that environment, but he's all man. I wonder who is worth more in the sight of the Lord? I am only a small duck in a very large puddle, but I am interested very deeply in local or municipal government. Who is to blame fo.. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 13e4cbe | Semmelweis was derided and dismissed not just for daring to propose that doctors wash their hands; he was derided and dismissed for proposing that doctors wash their hands if they wanted to deliver babies and dissect corpses in the same afternoon. This | Steven Johnson | ||
| cdde7d0 | No doubt some of the euphoria about the Internet's egalitarian promise was overstated, and some advocates did veer into genuine Net utopianism at times. But the people I was interested in were not evangelists for the Internet itself. For them, the Internet was not a cure-all; it was a role model. It wasn't the solution to the problem, but a way of thinking about the problem. One | Steven Johnson | ||
| f25809a | Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn't the first, but he was the first to make something that took off in the marketplace. So | Steven Johnson | ||
| cca60fb | Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. This is a pattern of change that appears constantly in evolutionary history. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 5c4d511 | Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. The electric battery, the telegraph, the steam engine, and the digital music library were all independently invented by multiple individuals in the space of a few years. | Steven Johnson | ||
| a997276 | Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 76bb21d | Ronald Burt, looked at the origin of good ideas inside the organizational network of the Raytheon Corporation. Burt found that innovative thinking was much more likely to emerge from individuals who bridged "structural holes" between tightly knit clusters. Employees who primarily shared information with people in their own division had a harder time coming up with useful suggestions" | Steven Johnson | ||
| d8650fa | To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter," | Steven Johnson | ||
| abccf5a | the "hummingbird effect." An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether." | Steven Johnson | ||
| be81359 | What Ruef discovered was a ringing endorsement of the coffeehouse model of social networking: the most creative individuals in Ruef's survey consistently had broad social networks that extended outside their organization and involved people from diverse fields of expertise. Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-ter.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 007c87b | De Forest was wrong about the utility of gas as a detector, but he kept probing at the edges of that error, until he hit upon something that was genuinely useful. Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. | Steven Johnson | ||
| ef4f82e | The lightbulb was the kind of innovation that comes together over decades, in pieces. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. | Steven Johnson | ||
| e8c29c2 | Dense urban environments may do away with nature altogether--there are many vibrantly healthy neighborhoods in Paris or Manhattan that lack even a single tree--but they also perform the crucial service of reducing mankind's environmental footprint. Compare the sewage system of a midsized city like Portland, Oregon, with the kind of waste management resources that would be required to support the same population dispersed across the countrys.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 01b6aef | There's a reason why the world's wealthiest people--people with near-infinite options vis-a-vis the choice of where to make their home--consistently choose to live in the densest areas on the planet. Ultimately, they live in these spaces for the same reason that the squatter classes of Sao Paulo do: because cities are where the action is. Cities are centers of opportunity, tolerance, wealth creation, social networking, health, population co.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| a54e5d6 | The wealthiest cities of the world will follow Venice's lead and simply try to engineer their way around the problem. The poorest cities will follow New Orleans' lead--at least so far--and just move to other nearby cities. Either way the poplation stays urban. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 108490c | An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 7689f35 | In other words, a serious crisis of nonrenewable energy resources is likely to accelerate the urbanization trend, not derail it. | Steven Johnson | ||
| d74d3f7 | The computer scientist Christopher Langton observed several decades ago that innovative systems have a tendency to gravitate toward the "edge of chaos":" | Steven Johnson |