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Shiny Objects
If you’re a hunter, are you wasting your gift chasing shiny but ultimately worthless objects? And if you’re a farmer, are you wasting your resources by planting and nurturing a crop that’s fashionable but without real value? It might be … Continue reading
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red letter days in our lives
There are red letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem, people whose handshake is a brimful of unspoken sympathy and whose sweet, rich nature imparts to our eager impatient spirits a … Continue reading
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stream of consciousness / gleaning of knowledge
google: 500 Days of Summer > zooey deschanel > franny & zooey > JD Salinger > Glass Family > Zachary Martin “Zooey” Glass – He is characteristically misanthropic which he attributes to Seymour and Buddy’s imposition of their college-age infatuation … Continue reading
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Easy
Is an ‘easy life’ enviable? “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be … Continue reading
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Passive-Agressive Behaviour
So I’m listening to this new podcast called Zenisstupid (which I’m finding very interesting and also informative) and there’s an episode (#27 on transformation) where they talked about receiving flaming comments from listeners/readers etc. I think naturally people in such … Continue reading
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Still making rounds on the internet; endearing indeed.
…But there’s something else Susan Boyle awakens in us as we watch her come out of her shell: our own selves. Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, that we are … Continue reading
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Have a good weekend!
How difficult is it to paint a SHOE, OMG. Help. * * I came across this quote on Design Crush and found it to be quite touching. I was wanting to paint an elephant, only, which I had envisioned to … Continue reading
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slicing away at the unhealthy qualities, from shyness and lack of confidence to…
Extracted from The Red Book by Sera Beak When I first encountered the fierce Hindu goddess Kali by way of a vibrant poster that one of my professors had pinned up on the blackboard, I was immediately hit by a … Continue reading
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Elusive
Very much like the perfect handbag, happiness is seemingly elusive. The search is ongoing. There just is no singular bag which halts the process. Perhaps then, its the path and not the goal? Sometimes, a poem sums it all up … Continue reading
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Sound
Rustling leaves and the first raindrops on a zinc roof * The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that … Continue reading
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