05 Jun Happiness and Memories
Happiness is not necessarily doing that which we enjoy but that which leaves us with happy memories....
04 Jun One Mind
There is only one mind to which each of us are connected. Those who think otherwise are disconnected from reality. The mind is a reflecting pond. Each of us is stationed at different points along the perimeter of mind. Our individual perspectives are reflections of mind from those respective points and our attitude. We each tend to take our finite perspective seriously and believe it's reality. However, reality is truly revealed when we have an amalgam of perspectives from infinite points along the perimeter of mind. This is the essence of wisdom....
02 Jun Patrick Mahomes
"I grew up in a locker room where people from every race, every background, and every community came together and became brothers to accomplish a single goal...
01 Jun Hearing or Listening
Others hear mostly the sounds we make when we express our unsolicited opinions. To get them to listen, we need them to ask us questions which get their attention to focus on our views. If we arouse their curiosity by asking them questions, they in turn might ask us questions. In that process, we might both learn something. Otherwise, expressing our unsolicited views is an intellectual or emotional bowel movement; feels good but puts off those near....
30 May Every thing is Nothing
Every thing is everything and nothing. Everything is all there is, beyond description; eternal; it is what it is whatever it is. Every thing is part of everything. No thing can be described as every thing is interdependent with everything and forever changing, a temporary part of everything. As every thing does not exist before it changes into and after it changes from its present form, every thing is nothing....
26 May Curiosity
Our mind is like a muscle, use it or lose it. Curiosity engages our mind with questions. Curiosity identifies anomalies our mind efforts to understand which keeps our mind functioning at peak levels....
25 May Hannah Arendt
"The banality of evil." Evil is not solely the domain of Hitler and the many other monsters in history. Evil is commonplace; the lack of compassion; viewing others as others, not as ourselves which is who they are....
24 May Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach." Best to make the most of what we have and not dwell on that which we don't have lest we waste what we have....
21 May The Time before our Birth
We have no recollection of the time before our birth. Maybe because it is like when we're asleep, a time of which we remember only what we imagine in dreams. Or maybe before birth we were one with everything and with no mind; thus, there is nothing to remember. ...