Category: Food for Thought
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Perspectives
Our personal, and All Humanities, Challenge All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal We’re waking up, becoming more aware, but will our “awakening” be enough, and soon enough? The first and overarching Big Problem is to make the Good Person. We must have better human…
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In Lieu of One Life Purpose
Instead of Your Life’s Purpose: A meditation on meaning that explores the non-linear ways life progresses beyond a simple conception of a personal mission. A common misperception many of us have regarding a meaningful life is that we have a special purpose in life—and that once we find it, all our confusion ends. We’re saved…
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Learning How to Think
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Exercising this kind of choice will put you miles ahead in life.
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Negativity
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” Unknown
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Science
Science begets knowledge (knowing). Opinion begets ignorance (speculation)” Charles Tutt Truth IS. Lies are invented” Charles Tutt
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Just for YOU
This is an excerpt from Marc and Angel’s Newsletter MarcandAngel.com You’re likely familiar with what’s known as the Serenity Prayer. It goes like this: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. There’s an important lesson…
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DNA Lottery
You, I, nor anyone else have any control over the lotteries of DNA, economic, social, religious, cultural, or any other circumstances into which we were born. Yet, I do not regret being born. Indeed, I’m very grateful for being born—warts and all. How about you? And if you, like me, are grateful; do you believe…
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Work on THINKING Skills
As a lifelong learner and student of many subjects, one of my greatest regrets is that I didn’t learn and practice good thinking skills early in my life. Many of my life’s lessons (failures) have been unnecessarily painful because of that. Today I want to share with you a couple of pertinent articles that got…
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Don’t Blame the Lettuce
Enjoy these insightful words from Thich Nhat Hanh: “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends…