26 Feb Frank Wilczek
"Complementarity: the concept that one single thing, when considered from different perspectives, can seem to have very different or even contradictory properties." Embracing complementarity is the essence of wisdom....
22 Feb Circa Survive
"The difference between medicine and poison is in the dose." Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing....
16 Feb Ross Levin
"Everyone is interesting if you listen to them." ...
07 Feb Fujiyama
Kanako Iiyama In the Edo Period some believed that Fujiyama was a female deity and that by climbing the mountain one would be reborn, purified and able to find happiness. Today, most people are made happy by the mountain's simple beauty. The pantheist star (on the waters below, reflecting the top of the mountain and the sun rising) informs us that everything we see is only one thing: energy in its infinite manifestations. ...
24 Jan Way Of Way 103
Science says we see others by the light they reflect. In reality, we see others by the light we project upon them....
21 Jan Edward Abbey
"Of course I litter the public highway. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."...
20 Jan Courtesy of Alan Glickman
A woman, without her man, is nothing. A woman, without her, man is nothing. Together, they are one and can turn into many. Apart, they both with be nothing. ...
20 Jan Way Of Way 97
“Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -- Voltaire Ideologies and identity groups are absurdities that are the foundation of dualities....
19 Jan Hassidic perspective of our good fortune
A man once visited the holy Rebbe Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch and said he had great difficulties applying the Talmudic saying that "A person is supposed to bless God for the bad just as he blesses Him for the good". The Maggid told him to find the Maggid's disciple Reb Zusha of Hanipoli and ask him. The man went and found Rabbi Zusha, who received him friendly and invited him to his home. When the guest came in, he saw how poor the family was, there was almost nothing to eat, they were beset with afflictions and illnesses. Nevertheless, Rabbi Zusha was always happy and cheerful. The guest was astonished at this picture. He said: "I went to the Holy Maggid to ask him how is it possible to bless God for the bad He sends us the same way as we bless Him for the good, and The Maggid told me only you can help me in this matter." Rabbi Zusha said: "This is indeed a very interesting question. But why did our holy Rebbe send you to me? How would I know? He should have sent you to someone who has experienced suffering." The essence of happiness is gratitude, the realization that however dour our circumstances they could always be worse. We are truly blessed when we recognize and serve God, the ever-changing and eternal whole, as we in turn become one with God; thereby realizing our self-perceived relative good or bad fortune is perception, not reality....