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| 8df5479 | Sull'acqua, sotto il mare, in alto nel bosco sarai. Fidati del tuo istinto, nel mare; riporta a me il tuo tesoro. Se lo troverai, come dovresti, viaggerai, giorno e notte. Appena lo vedrai, lo saprai, come sopra cosi sotto. Quando lo avrai afferrato, sarai pronto ad attraversare il mare. | Dan Millman | ||
| e161c19 | Dan Millman councils us that "every act is a deliberate act of will. Even when tying your shoes--tie them impeccably." -- | Arno Ilgner | ||
| 47a2118 | For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. | Nonsense | ||
| 40564af | Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. | Dan Millman | ||
| 6d09ad3 | Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all. | Dan Millman | ||
| 6165464 | After that, before each practice began, we would sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." "Many children learn this song in my country," I said, "but few people understand its deeper truths. These truths apply, as you'll see, not only to acrobatics or t'ai chi training but to all of life. The words 'Row, row, row your boat' remind us to build our lives on a foundation of action and effort, not on positive thoughts or feelings. Thinking about doing s.. | Dan Millman | ||
| bb770a7 | sensitivity | Dan Millman | ||
| 85268dd | When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once you make your choice, do it with all your spirit. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love to his wife, and thought about making love to his wife while praying. | Dan Millman | ||
| 971f7f4 | Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. | Dan Millman | ||
| a1e82f3 | Moderation?" He leaped up on the desk, like an evangelist. "Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation" -- he took a deep bre.. | Dan Millman | ||
| c024406 | Let's go deeper and consider four central sets of paradoxical truths: * Time is real. It moves from past to present to future. * There is no time, no past, no future--only the eternal present. * You possess free will and can thus take responsibility for your choices. * Free will is an illusion--your choices are influenced, even predetermined, by all that preceded them. * You are, or possess, a separate inner self existing within a body. * N.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 8d47094 | Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear. | Dan Millman | ||
| 7a912f8 | There is no victory over death; there is only the realization of Who we all really are. | Dan Millman | ||
| 0fd81fa | When on a long trek, it's okay to quit whenever you like, as long as your feet keep moving. | Dan Millman | ||
| b5d080d | his mind creates both his disappointments and his -- joys. | Dan Millman | ||
| 8852b06 | You focused on the goal, not on the obstacle. This is how we face our lives. | Dan Millman | ||
| f711471 | First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. | mountain philosophy river | Dan Millman | |
| 8c31999 | I'd better redefine some terms for you. 'Mind' is one of those slippery terms like 'love.' The proper definition depends on your state of consciousness. Look at it this way: You have a brain that directs the body, stores information, and plays with that information. We refer to the brain's abstract processes as 'the intellect.' Nowhere have I mentioned mind. The brain and the mind are not the same. The brain is real; the mind isn't. "'Mind'.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1c69bc9 | It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. | Dan Millman | ||
| 05fefcb | The rain was a perfectly lawful display of nature. Your 'upset' at the ruined picnic and your 'happiness' when the sun reappeared were the product of your thoughts. They had nothing to do with the actual events. Haven't you been 'unhappy' at celebrations for example? It is obvious then that your mind, not other people or your surroundings, is the source of your moods. That is the first lesson. | Dan Millman | ||
| 812fe2a | The world was people with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death--seeking purpose, security, enjoyment; trying to make sense of the mystery. Everyone everywhere lived a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the comer--a corner they never turned. | Dan Millman | ||
| 5ea4600 | Life is a sea that brings waves of change, welcome or not. As the warrior-emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Time is a river of passing events. No sooner is one thing brought to sight than it's swept away, and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." The Buddha, leaving behind both his protected childhood and ascetic renunciation, and having attained illumination, observed, "Everything that begins also ends. Make peace with t.. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1a7d2ab | Il mondo la fuori", disse indicando l'orizzonte, "e una scuola, Dan. La vita e l'unico , vero insegnante. Ci offre molte esperienze, ma se l'esperienza da sola portasse saggezza e realizzazione, gli anziani sarebbero tutti felici, sarebbero tutti maestri illuminati. Bisogna scoprire le lezioni nascoste nelle esperienze." -- | Dan Millman | ||
| 0ae90b0 | The world was peopled with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death -- seeking purpose, security, enjoyment, trying to make sense of the mystery. Everyone everywhere lived a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner -- a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1813302 | Finally, I realized the process of real meditation--to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness. | Dan Millman | ||
| c709a2c | My paintings [c. 1907] were aglow with colors and so my soul was contended with them. | Alexej von Jawlensky | ||
| 7b0e195 | Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou beLord of thyself. | Alexis | ||
| 3960c97 | Of all thy blessings reckon wealth the least,For 'tis the least secure of our possessions. | Alexis | ||
| a1ee834 | Primum non nocere. First do no harm. | Donald Bain | ||
| 18ded57 | One way to look at design--any kind of design--is that it's essentially about constraints | Steve Krug | ||
| f1765cc | People who are known as Dionysians tend to trust others. They're intuitive and make many decisions based upon feelings rather than cognitive thought. | Donald Bain | ||
| 8cd7dd6 | And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between feeling and thinking. Most people are Odysseans. | Donald Bain | ||
| 2c370ac | inveigled | Margaret Truman | ||
| 65de7ca | No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. --FROM A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION, A CIA TRAINING MANUAL, 1954 | Donald Bain | ||
| 7be71d2 | The bigger they are, the harder they fall, | Donald Bain | ||
| 7af5eff | Then, one night, while daughter Margaret played the piano upstairs, the floor indeed gave way and the piano crashed through, sending plaster and rotted wood onto the executive mansion's first floor below. The subsequent extensive and high-profile restoration provided the perfect cover to install a secret bomb shelter. On August 1, 1950, Truman's naval aide, Robert Dennison, wrote a memo to the renovation team, explaining, "The President has.. | Garrett M. Graff | ||
| 7d80df3 | Rapanui, | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5b81210 | Though Fortune now be smiling, it behovesTo look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune. | Alexis | ||
| 372dbce | Iris's favorite item at Tenta is , sea eel. Unlike its freshwater cousin , anago is neither endangered nor expensive. A whole anago at Tenta is about $7.50. I ordered one, and the chef pulled a live eel out of a bucket. It wriggled like, well, an eel. Iris screamed as water droplets flew toward us. The chef managed to wrestle the unruly thing into the sink and knocked it unconscious before driving a spike into its head and filleting it. H.. | backbone eel tempura | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| 23b0c91 | Not in vain oaths should prudent men believe,But put their trust in actions. | Alexis | ||
| de23557 | The observers of the time were detecting a phenomenon that we now largely take for granted: that "mass" behavior can often diverge strikingly from the desires of the individuals that make up the mass." | Steven Johnson | ||
| f854472 | They mistook the smoke for the fire. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 455d179 | Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that one of the paradoxical effects of metropolitan life is that huge cities create environments where small niches can flourish. A store selling nothing but buttons most likely won't be able to find a market in a town of 50,000 people, but in New York City, there's an entire button-store district. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 49cffcf | Look to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise: Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provides her meat in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. --PROVERBS 6:6-8 | Steven Johnson |