02 Saturday Aug 2014
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The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. –Thich Nhat Hanh
30 Wednesday Jul 2014
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ―Alan Watts
25 Friday Jul 2014
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“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
06 Tuesday May 2014
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“Recall that mathematics is a tool to meditate, not compute.” –Nassim Nicholas Taleb
06 Tuesday May 2014
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“It is so obvious that we know what to do yet do not carry the action because thinking can be largely ornamental.” –Nassim Nicholas Taleb
04 Sunday May 2014
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15 Tuesday Apr 2014
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12 Saturday Apr 2014
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If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. –A. A. Milne
31 Monday Mar 2014
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. –Rebecca West
24 Monday Mar 2014
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The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. –Albert Camus
18 Tuesday Mar 2014
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04 Wednesday Dec 2013
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“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” –Albert Einstein
23 Saturday Nov 2013
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21 Thursday Nov 2013
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
–Rumi
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