GLORIA ANN LOWE… 12/19/1952 – 07/23/2010 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”…
Date Archives July 2010
“Worry is otherwise known as ‘fantasized catastrophizing’ where we create an image of the future and…”
“Worry is otherwise known as ‘fantasized catastrophizing’ where we create an image of the future and use it to frighten ourselves! Be aware that you are doing it, then stop doing it, otherwise the image will become a self fulfilling prophesy. Imagine only the brightest future, and so it will be. Besides there is nothing to worry about… unless you are under the illusion that your well-being and security are dependent on material things. If they are, then you will have many ways in which you can create worry. Possible loss, damage, separation, uncertainty are but a few. Look, you’re killing yourself with worry, all because of the misuse of your imagination. Don’t do it.”
– Innerspace (via bodymindandsoul) (via dysfunctionalhippie)
“When will you begin to live virtuously, Plato asked an old man who was telling him that he was…”
“When will you begin to live virtuously, Plato asked an old man who was telling him that he was attending a series of lectures on virtue. One must not just speculate for ever; one must one day also think about actual practice. But today we think those who live as they teach are dreamers.”
– Immanuel Kant
“If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own…”
“If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgements about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Measure life in loan payments and time quickly runs out; measure life by infinite values and time…”
“Measure life in loan payments and time quickly runs out; measure life by infinite values and time keeps out of the way.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an…”
“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of the speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical qualities, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”
– Betrand Russell
time to ponder or ponder time
I’ve been working flat out over the last 3 months or so getting up at 0430 to be out the door by 0545 to catch the 0620 train to London (a journey that takes me…
“We turn clay to make a vase; but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of…”
“We turn clay to make a vase; but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vase depends. Just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.”
– Lao Tzu