thought for the day
I don’t know if I’m just repeating something I’d heard long ago… but this struck me today…
If you’re not getting enough out of life, it means you’re not giving enough of yourself.
TAKEN FROM “WAKE-UP CALLS WRITTEN BY JERRY JAMPOLSKY, M.D. AND DIANE CIRINCIONE, PH.D. 1. TO BE AWAKE IS TO KNOW THAT WE WERE NEVER SEPARATE 2. NO ONE EVER TOLD US WHEN WE WERE BORN THAT “HANGING LOOSE” OR BEING “UPTIGHT” WAS A CHOICE 3. IF HEARTS WERE MORE OPEN TO LOVE, WE WOULD HAVE…
This page contains various links I have collected over the years (read some, and others added to a todo list). If you find any of them interesting you could follow up on that topic. If the Internet is like an ocean, then you can say that my hobby is to do deep sea diving and these are some pearls, not just those I discovered but also those that my friends have sent me.
A philosopher knows exactly what to do in any situation, until it happens to him. I guess this rather stunning quote conveys more or less the same point as this story from the Mahabharata 🙂
I will tell you one thing which may sound unpleasant, so please bear with me and by all means let me know your disagreement. We have been fed with fear all our life. We live on it. I have been told all my life that “water is a dangerous thing” and “there are snakes in…
[based on an email to family] The idea of me writing this is not to show you what I have discovered/believe [anyway I expect it will probably change later, esp after I get married] but hope to elicit a reply on what *you* think about it. And there is no “correct” or “wrong” answer, so…
If we consider a snake, over time, it gets a new skin, and its old skin dies. Its not easy for the snake to get rid of the old skin. It has to wriggle through rocks and narrow spaces and put in considerable effort to get rid of the old skin. Its quite uncomfortable –…