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impossible

ames — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:31:15 +0000

“You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.”

Debi Coleman, from Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

future

ames — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:28:17 +0000

“The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

control

ames — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:26:14 +0000

“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

the path

ames — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:24:18 +0000

“I learn’t the truth of the Zen saying that if you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

transformation through beauty

ames — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:21:23 +0000

“It reinforced my sense of what was important – creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

be

ames — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:28:35 +0000

From: Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

responsibility

ames — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:20:21 +0000

“In short, she said, we are all ultimately responsible for our lives and as such can actively influence the future.”

- Tenzin Palmo, Cave in the Snow

At the moment I am reading the story of how a Londoner (Tenzin Palmo) went to India very young and became a Buddhist Nun, meditating in a cave for many years. A remarkable woman. What strikes me most is her path was so clear to her. I know it strikes me most as I am utterly jealous of her clear direction which is utterly ironic given the quote above.

pain

ames — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:28:53 +0000

“…the exhaustion that pain brings arises because we resist it. The thing is to learn to go with pain, to ride it.”

- Tenzin Palmo, Cave in the Snow

oneself

ames — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:20:14 +0000

“For someone to develop genuine compassion towards others, first he or she must have a basis upon which to cultivate compassion, and that basis is the ability to connect to one’s own feelings and to care for one’s own welfare. If one is not capable of doing that, how can one reach out to others and feel concern for them? Caring for others requires caring for oneself.”

- The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation

magnetism

ames — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:59:40 +0000

“The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, and the more you develop them, the more powerful they become.”

- The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation