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this is a disgrace. we should all as human beings be horrified by this, but no, life goes on as it doesn't impact us. why do we allow people like Putin and Netayahu persist in their power games at the expense of innocent people - unfortunately mainly woman and children?

Aid workers' murders in Gaza did not start with Zomi Frankcom’s death My fellow health and humanitarian workers are reeling at Zomi Frankcom's death. But what of our friends and colleagues who've already been killed?

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Deepak Chopra
How the Path of Love Works
You have a vision of love as essential to life
You favor loving experiences when they occur
You stop favoring negative unloving experiences
You open your awareness to receiving love
You become acquainted with bliss
You settle deep into your awareness to stabilize bliss consciousness as your default experience

Adopt John Green’s mindset: “Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m going to fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re going to fall apart.
The cells and organs and systems that make you — they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”

“Fear does not go away by itself. You have to confront your fear, mold it, then learn to control it in its own irrational reality. Every human being has the power to do just that. To go deep within and confront your inner being is a powerful act. Going deep and developing the willpower is the only way.”
— Wim Hof

“The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources is steadily declining in value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.”
— George Gilder (technology thinker)

“Why do we love nonsense? Why do we love Lewis Carroll with his “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe…”? It is this participation in the essential glorious nonsense that is at the heart of the world, not necessarily going anywhere. It seems that only in moments of unusual insight and illumination that we get the point of this, and find that the true meaning of life is no meaning, that its purpose is no purpose, and that its sense is non-sense.” —Alan Watts, Tao of Philosophy

“To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening. To understand joy or fear, you must be wholly and undividedly aware of it. So long as you are calling it names and saying, “I am happy,” or “I am afraid,” you are not being aware of it.”—Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them. This is why all philosophical and theological systems must ultimately fall apart. To “know” reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it. “ — Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“I’ve spent my life trying to undo habits — especially habits of thinking. They narrow your interaction with the world. They’re the phrases that come easily to your mind, like: ‘I know what I think,’ or ‘I know what I like,’ or ‘I know what’s going to happen today.’ If you just replace ‘know’ with ‘don’t know,’ then you start to move into the unknown. And that’s where the interesting stuff happens.” — Humans of New York

In her book, Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life, Tasha Eurich argues that do better in life:
There is strong scientific evidence that people who know themselves and how others see them are happier. They make smarter decisions. They have better personal and professional relationships. They raise more mature children. They’re smarter, superior students who choose better careers. They’re more creative, more confident, and better communicators. They’re less aggressive and less likely to lie, cheat, and steal. They’re better performers at work who get more promotions. They’re more effective leaders with more enthusiastic employees. They even lead more profitable companies… some research has even shown that self-awareness is the single greatest predictor of leadership success.

Eckhart Tolle “Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.“

Viktor Frankl said,
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how”.

a video I did with Steve Brossman in relation to the webinars we are conducting this week to help people through the COVID-19 situation in their businesses.

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“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them.”
- Plutarch

“I have heard that you Athenians are clever hands at stealing the public moneys; and that too though there is a fearful risk for the person so employed.
But, I am told, it is your best men who are addicted to it, if it is your best men who are thought worthy to rule.
So it is a fine opportunity for yourself also, Xenophon, to exhibit your education.”
— Extract from “Anabasis” by Xenophon

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts… Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day — if you live long enough — most people get what they deserve. — Charlie Munger

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.” Epictetus

“Act always so as to treat all others as ends, and never as a means only.”
Thus said Immanuel Kant, the pivotal German philosopher

what would happen

What If Trump Refuses to Give Up the Presidency? Mass protests may be the only way to force him out.

just posted a new blog, thanks to Ryan Romano
belieffirst.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/you-say-you-believe/

YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE with thanks to Ryan Romano – I thought this was great The more I pay attention to people, including myself, I have witnessed the vast majority of people trying to convince themselves that are…

“You can’t do much carpentry with your bare hands and you can’t do much thinking with your bare brain.” — Bo Dahlbom, philosopher and computer scientist

“Mental models are to your brain as apps are to your smartphone.” -Jayme Hoffman

“Everybody’s looking for the future. They’re never in the present. So when they arrive at the future, it’s not there for them because they’re not present for it. If you get the idea that this is the moment that you have, it is the only moment that you have, then you live in the present, and you move with the flow, because this is the point of arrival. Right now.” — Deepak Chopra

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” — Jim Rohn

Idea of the Day: Creativity is one of the primary skills that will set people apart as we enter a new phase of work, says Bernard Marr. It will help humans “fully realize the benefits of all the new things for the future — new products, ways of working and technologies.”
“Robots currently can’t compete with humans on creativity. The future workplace is going to demand new ways of thinking, and human creativity is the key to it.”

“If you want lasting change, you’ve got to give up this idea of ‘trying something.’ You’ve got to decide you’re going to commit-to-mastery. Most people dabble. They say, ‘I’d like to change my body’ or ‘I’d like to make my relationship better.’ These people don’t have enough details to follow-through.” -Tony Robbins

“As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” — Dwight Eisenhower