“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.” “Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” ― John Ruskin The world rarely goes as you plan.
It never does. It is amazing how hard we each work at remaining where we already are, doing the same things over and over, and how little time we spend trying to change everything. To go where we want to go. Everything changes and yet we spend hours trying to believe it does not and trying to stop it from happening. We resist, and then the world changes anyway, often not the way we like, and I now believe that you need to not just embrace change, you need to drive change. You need to make it happen. Change is a train, and you can lay tracks to guide that change in the general direction you want, or you can sit fearfully and hope the change goes where you want it to. Trust me, change never goes where you want. Never. It is smarter for you to make the change happen, to make a conscious decision about what you want and then work hard to make it happen. The secret to success is simple, and success does not go to the smartest or the best; It goes to the person who tried, who experimented and tried new things, and took risks It goes to the person who focused on making it happen, who took single minded action. It goes to the person who networked and made friends, and helped and gave to others, And victory always goes to the one who didn't give up. The world is full of people who want something better, but are afraid to change, or can't commit to the work, to the discipline. You will do the work, you will get the job done, you will make things change. Never give up. Ever. D “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." ― Muhammad Ali “I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.”
― W. Somerset Maugham Does your virtual self match your physical self? Not just in how you look, but also in how you act, who you strive to be. Who you say you are. Why is it different? What is it that you changed about yourself when you went on line? Why can't you be the same everywhere? I think your personality on line evolves as you, the person, off line grows or changes, and I think that the ability to have a different persona online allows you a certain distance and gives the ability to experiment with who you are, and who you can or want to be. Creating a name or persona online allows you to break away from who you are off line. I think it allows you to see who you really want to be, and it lets you escape from the expectations and definitions of those who know you. I think the online persona shows who you want to be, it shows who you could be in the physical world if you had the courage, it allows you to find others like you, to learn how to become what you truly want to be. It allows you feedback to change yourself. You can look at yourself online objectively, and then try use those personality characteristics to see who, or what, you can or want to be. That is incredibly powerful. Self knowledge is important. The online world allows you to experiment with who you are. The goal should be to become more natural online with what you are, and that does not mean an alias, or hide behind an online name, it means to play with the fundamental idea of who you really are. We often live a life defined by others, built by external decisions, and by our fear of action. If you could do anything, Literally anything. With no rules, no past, if you know now what you didn't then, what would you do? That answer shows the inner you, and that doesn't necessarily mean that is what you will be, but it shows you where to go, what matters,and the tools you will need. The goal is to be yourself, everywhere and anywhere, to be whatever you need to be, no matter what that will be, or what it will change. It is a path. D This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.”
“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.” ― Patti Smith The beauty of the world is that it is all connected, and that everything is interdependent, everything is one. However we spend much of our time seperating, defining, and catagorizing, none of which are real, they are all fictions and narratives. When defnitions are made and catagories created, there are always those items that don't fit the nice neat box. Mankinds tries to contain the infinite in words but needs to understand that nothing exists by itself. Nothing is seperate from anything else. All of it, all of us, are all connected, and ultimately part of the same whole. That leads to the thought that if you treat everything as seperate and distinct, you end up with processes and actions that lead to unforseen results. Bring in animals from one region to another region where it has no predator and wrong things happen. The list is long, but none of the actions was meant to cause harm, but they did because they ignored that we are all connected. Look at ecosystems and our inability to make them stable or thrive, it is because we cannot grasp the complexity. Man sees himsekf as seperate and is not. We are not managing the world, we are in it. We are part of the process. All living things matter and have a effect on the system, and all living things are affected by changes in the system. We need to coexist with nature, the world, our systems, and our our actions. We are simply part of the whole. D “Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground. Like so.” ― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo |
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