February 2012
2 posts
Nice guys finish last.
Probably the biggest wrong of them all. We spend our younger years hearing generic, cliche advice from the adults around us. Lines that sound like “then he really isn’t your friend at all..” or “quitters never win”.. Remember those? Our parents had their ways of teaching us how to recognize appreciation and loyalty, the two things that weigh so heavily on...
Men and Women.
I truly think men have naturally positive spirits. Even the most positive woman is still more likely to make a decision based on the negative.. “What he didn’t do.. Might not do.. Shouldn’t do.. Couldn’t do…” Women are so likely to make decisions based off how well a man can follow these expectations.. While a man is more likely to make his decision based off...
January 2012
31 posts
“I have seen the best and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
Discourse on Method
Reading of all good books is like a conversation with the most qualified people in past centuries, who were their authors, and even a premeditated conversation, in which they reveal only their best thoughts… Almost the same thing as talking to men of other centuries is traveling. It’s good to know something of the habits of different peoples, so that our judge more fairly and not...
“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge...”
– Anaïs Nin
“A goddess does not go and get a lover; she is a true lover, and happiness...”
– Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative...
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Plato's Symposium
Humans have a dual nature, existing in matter with the potential of the divine. We are a microcosm within the macrocosm. Love exemplifies this longing to realize the divine within us and to help others realize their potential, as well. Love helps us to find a relationship between the two worlds we live in. Employing Diotema’s process of ascent, it is a movement upward to a finer and finer...
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
Madeleine L’Engle
It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them – and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on – this desperate need – and only once in a rare million do the same two...
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For...”
– John Lennon
“Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become ‘one who resists or...”
– Aleister Crowley
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Free Spirit.
It’s about rolling over in the morning with a smile on your face. About lifting your shirt in the mirror and loving what you see. It’s about letting people in so they can let you in. And about seeing something in them that no one else ever has. About them showing you something you never knew about yourself. It’s about having tons and tons of memories with different people from...
December 2011
11 posts
A true match.
Is an ongoing connection with another individual that your soul will pick up again in various times and places over lifetimes. You will be attracted to this person at a soul level; And it will not be because this person is your unique complement, but because by being with this individual, you will be somehow provided with an impetus to become whole yourself.
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“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be...”
– Mahatma Ghandi
“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means...”
– Jill Bolte Taylor
Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs
This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street, it’s the whole culture. It’s a way of looking at us and valuing ourselves in each other. And how you are going to move beyond challenging Wall Street. How you’re going to move to become part of the solution…
You begin with a demonstration. You begin with a protest. But you have to move on from there. The people are rightfully, righteously protesting...
November 2011
46 posts
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to...”
– Anaïs Nin
Terence McKenna
We have to stop CONSUMING our culture. We have to CREATE culture. DON’T watch TV, DON’T read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your OWN roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are - NOW - is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered. You’re giving it all away to ICONS. Icons...