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Success is the result of failure. Failure forces us to generate options, new solutions.
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Be careful to not re-interpret mistakes as successes
Monday, November 28, 2011
December 04
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Be willing to fail.
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Do not cause more damage in efforts to reverse a mistake
Be willing to fail.
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Do not cause more damage in efforts to reverse a mistake
December 03
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Challenge the status quo - especially the one you create.
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Beware denial - not admitting your contribution to mistakes
Challenge the status quo - especially the one you create.
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Beware denial - not admitting your contribution to mistakes
December 02
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Commit to what works
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Honest advice from trusted advisors is often better than your own intuition
Commit to what works
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Honest advice from trusted advisors is often better than your own intuition
December 01
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Try / Fail / Try again / Fail better
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Can I bear the cost of a possible failure?
Try / Fail / Try again / Fail better
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Can I bear the cost of a possible failure?
Friday, November 4, 2011
November 30
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Freedom is a mind not crippled by memories.
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We are afraid to be empty, to look at our fears
Freedom is a mind not crippled by memories.
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We are afraid to be empty, to look at our fears
November 29
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The movement from certainty to uncertainty is fear.
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I am part of fear, it is not separate from me
The movement from certainty to uncertainty is fear.
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I am part of fear, it is not separate from me
November 28
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Joy is different from pleasure.
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You can only give full attention when you care
Joy is different from pleasure.
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You can only give full attention when you care
November 27
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We are too easily hurt, flattered or bored.
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There is a difference between isolation and solitude
We are too easily hurt, flattered or bored.
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There is a difference between isolation and solitude
November 26
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See and act - do not revolt.
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Live with myself as I am, without comparision, condemnation, justification or false modesty
See and act - do not revolt.
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Live with myself as I am, without comparision, condemnation, justification or false modesty
November 25
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There is conflict at all levels of being. We accept conflict because we accept competitiveness, jealousy, acquisitiveness, aggression - they are part of the structure of our society, and we want to be accepted and respected by our society.
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Free your mind from the structures and values of society
There is conflict at all levels of being. We accept conflict because we accept competitiveness, jealousy, acquisitiveness, aggression - they are part of the structure of our society, and we want to be accepted and respected by our society.
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Free your mind from the structures and values of society
November 24
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When the house is on fire, do you worry about the color of the firemen's hair?
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Become free of the need for stimulation
When the house is on fire, do you worry about the color of the firemen's hair?
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Become free of the need for stimulation
November 23
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Live only in what is.
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No trying nor doing my best - simply do it and do not do it
Live only in what is.
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No trying nor doing my best - simply do it and do not do it
November 22
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Throw off the encrustations of ideals and ideologies and find out for yourself. Clear up you own confusions.
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Die to the things you cherish and that you are bitter about
Throw off the encrustations of ideals and ideologies and find out for yourself. Clear up you own confusions.
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Die to the things you cherish and that you are bitter about
November 21
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After 200,000 years, why have we not learned that hating and killing is not the way to live?
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To really look and listen is very difficult
After 200,000 years, why have we not learned that hating and killing is not the way to live?
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To really look and listen is very difficult
November 20
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We do not change gradually, it happens in an instant.
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We are not loved because we do not know how to love
We do not change gradually, it happens in an instant.
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We are not loved because we do not know how to love
November 19
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Do not seek the soul or an afterlife - rather ask how to live with enchantment, compassion, and happiness.
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Nothing is permanent
Do not seek the soul or an afterlife - rather ask how to live with enchantment, compassion, and happiness.
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Nothing is permanent
November 17
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Realize that most love is not love - it is mutual gratification and exploitation.
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If you do not know what to do, then do nothing. Do not seek, want, pray, pursue, or question
Realize that most love is not love - it is mutual gratification and exploitation.
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If you do not know what to do, then do nothing. Do not seek, want, pray, pursue, or question
November 16
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Living in the future is the great escape.
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The austerity of being totally simple
Living in the future is the great escape.
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The austerity of being totally simple
November 15
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It is up to me - there is no teacher, no guide, no one to tell me what to do. I am alone in a brutal world.
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We are always adding and subtracting from what we are - weighing, comparing, judging, modifying, changing as a result of internal and external pressures - living in a field of conciousness of our own knowledge, experiences, and innumberable calculations based on our own memories, experiences, knowledge, traditions, influences and varities of suffering and joys - all of which are part of the past
It is up to me - there is no teacher, no guide, no one to tell me what to do. I am alone in a brutal world.
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We are always adding and subtracting from what we are - weighing, comparing, judging, modifying, changing as a result of internal and external pressures - living in a field of conciousness of our own knowledge, experiences, and innumberable calculations based on our own memories, experiences, knowledge, traditions, influences and varities of suffering and joys - all of which are part of the past
November 14
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Only without preconceptions can we be in direct contact with anything.
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When I say "I know you", I mean yesterday - not now. We have nothing but bundles of memories
Only without preconceptions can we be in direct contact with anything.
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When I say "I know you", I mean yesterday - not now. We have nothing but bundles of memories
November 13
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Thoughts distort for our own convenience.
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Do not interpret - just give full attention
Thoughts distort for our own convenience.
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Do not interpret - just give full attention
November 12
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There is little solitude when we carry yesterday's burdens.
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Be careful that ideas do not become more important than actions
There is little solitude when we carry yesterday's burdens.
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Be careful that ideas do not become more important than actions
November 11
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You cannot invite the wind, but you can leave the window open.
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Passion is frightening because you do not know where it will lead you
You cannot invite the wind, but you can leave the window open.
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Passion is frightening because you do not know where it will lead you
November 10
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When your mind wanders, that means it is interested in something else.
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We do not ask. Rather, we want to be told, to be confirmed and corroborated. Ask more
When your mind wanders, that means it is interested in something else.
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We do not ask. Rather, we want to be told, to be confirmed and corroborated. Ask more
November 09
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We want psychological security in relationships and activities - but there is none. Accept this.
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You can have marvelous experiences and still be deluded
We want psychological security in relationships and activities - but there is none. Accept this.
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You can have marvelous experiences and still be deluded
November 08
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Space and silence are required to come up with something new.
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Communication requires more than words you understand. It also needs the full attention of the listener
Space and silence are required to come up with something new.
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Communication requires more than words you understand. It also needs the full attention of the listener
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