Tuesday, July 26, 2011

August 04

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Without courage, wisdom can bear no fruit.

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"What can I do to help?" - then, listen

August 03

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Our lives are frittered away by details - so simplify, simplify, simplify.

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Be hear now. Be somewhere else later. That is not so complicated

August 02

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It was messy - but it was a good mess.

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Others can inspire, information feeds, practice improves - but we need quite time to understand, to discover, to innovate

August 01

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Do not force it, be willing to do nothing - to wait.

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Make your move when interest and passion are engaged

July 31

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Failure is always in the past - forget it.

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Be a pirate - steal good ideas

July 30

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Often common sense is not common practice.

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Determine what matters and let the rest go

July 29

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We tend to tell strangers what we think they want to hear.

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Social media is not a conversation and is not a relationship

Monday, July 25, 2011

July 28

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Finding truth requires blundering around.

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Our culture is afflicted with knowingness

July 27

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Do not surrender to others your moment of giving order to the world.

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Life requires assessing

July 26

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When we allow the voices of strangers, especially the shrill ones, to enter our heads, a vital part of ourselves is diminished.

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Their is a supreme vitality to being alone with one's own thoughts, free from the verdict's of others opinions.

July 25

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There is money in treating problems, not in preventing them - so, problems proliferate.

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We exalt in knowing as much as possible and have forgotten the pleasures of not knowing

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

July 24

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You can rule the world if you will let it takes its course.

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The world cannot be ruled by interfering

July 23

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You can never earned more time - so spend it wisely.

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I have suffered many troubles, many of which never occurred

July 22

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Leisure is not the same as entertainment.

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Do not waste your time trying to change negative people - just avoid them

July 21

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Freed from the need to conform, eccentrics can pursue their own lifestyle, what really makes them happy.

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Seek solitude

July 20

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Knowing others is wisdom.

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Knowing yourself is enlightenment

July 19

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A man with $10 million is not happier than a man with $9 million.

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Comtemplate "how much is enough"

July 18

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If you think happiness is money, try to sell your happiness.

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I found it is more trouble to watch after my money than it was to earn it

July 17

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You may already have the good life, and are failing to realize it.

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Spend less than you earn
Earn more than you spend

July 16

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Wish list:
Enough purpose to know satisfaction
Courage to meet difficulties
Gratitude to appreciate what you have

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Small amounts of good nutritous food
Moderate, regular exercise
Go slower
Take it easy

July 15

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Seek growth, not perfection.

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Like many, love a few

July 14

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Everyday: name one thing you are grateful for...

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...and identify something that really is not important

July 13

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Find out what you do best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

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Just think how happy you'd be right now, if you had lost everything - and then found it again

Sunday, July 10, 2011

July 12

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There is much self organization, so trust disorder to resolve itself.

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There is a broad range of thresholds of influence by other people

July 11

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We are the product of many minds making many decisions in response to local inputs.

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"Public opinion" is "us". There is no mastermind conspiracy, no Big Brother, no central decision-maker

July 11

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We are full of conformity mechanisms.

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Groups start out unstable and changeable - but it becomes increasingly difficult to change them as time goes on

July 10

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The area between chaos and order is complexity.

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Multi-directional causality results because it is difficult to separate the mutual interaction of cause and effect.

July 09

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Note that despite our selfish impulses, we still manage to organize into societies and functional groups.

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People that spend time doing things for those they love are less depressed and more fulfilled in their personal lives

July 08

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Humans have a natural instinct for taking care of family and intimate friends - so indulge it and enjoy.

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The law of Reciprocal Altruism - doing favors for family and friends

July 07

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Beware testosterone crazed you men

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Complexity naturally emerges from even just a few simple parameters