April 2012
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When we learn to work with our own Inner nature, and with the natural laws operating around us, we reach the level of Wu Wei. Then we work with the natural order of things and operate on the principle of minimal effore. Since the natural world follows that principle, it does not make mistakes. Mistakes are made-or imagined-by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain who separates himself from...
“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
– chuck palahniuk
“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free...”
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The Romanov's
As of this morning, I just rekindled my obsession for the Romanov’s. Good luck getting my nose out of a book.
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A dramatic Shakespearean response to every...
When something bad happens: True is it that we have seen better days.
When something REALLY bad happens: O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day. Most woeful day That ever, ever I did yet behold! O day, O day, O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this.O woeful day! O woeful day!
When people say that something is wrong because the Bible says so: The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
When my girlfriend abandons me for food: FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN!
When someone doesn't thank me for holding the door open for them: BLOW, BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND! THOU ART NOT SO UNKIND AS MAN'S INGRATITUDE!
When I burn something while cooking: MY CAKE IS DOUGH!
When human stupidity frustrates me: LORD, WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!
When someone says I'm going to hell for my sins: NYMPH, IN THY ORISONS BE ALL MY SINS REMEMBER'D.
When I'm broke: My pride fell with my fortunes
When someone turns the light on after a period of darkness and blinding light ensues: OH, SHE DOTH TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT!
When someone disagrees with me: THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, HORATIO, THEN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
When I argue with my girlfriend: The course of true love never did run smooth.
When I'm embarrassed: MUST I HOLD A CANDLE TO MY SHAMES?!
Someone says "Good Night": Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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Trust, morality -- and oxytocin →
What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it “the moral molecule”) is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society.
A pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics, Paul Zak is uncovering how the hormone oxytocin promotes trust, and proving that love is good for business.
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To me, friendship is simple. The way I like to picture it is this famous photo of Einstein standing at a blackboard filled with long, complicated equations that add up to a short one at the bottom: E=mc². The genius was not only that he understood those long equations and what could be done with them, but also his ability to condense them into the short one that defined them. Our relationships...
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“We grow great by dreams…[We] see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in...”
– woodrow wilson 