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Yeah...most of these come from Steven Wright and Mitch Hedburg...not from ruminations...so why don't you guys give credit where it's actually due.
This month marks my 6-year anniversary blogging for mental_floss. It also marks mentalfloss.com’s 6-year anniversary in the blogosphere. To celebrate the more than 2,000 daily posts, I’ll be republishing some of my favorite posts from these last half-dozen years, starting today, running to the end of the month.
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Here I Am by Michael Ryan | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Today is the birthday of the French poet Paul Verlaine ( books by this author ), born in Metz, in the northeast of France, in 1844. He began writing as young as 14, when he sent his poem "La Mort" to Victor Hugo. He published his first volume of poetry when he was 22. It's the birthday of Vincent van Gogh , born in Zundert, Holland (1853), a painter and also great letter-writer. He wrote about art, of course, but also friendship, religion, prostitutes, interior decorating, and his love affairs. His letters are often lively, engaging, and passionate; they also frequently reflect his struggles with bipolar disorder.
Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now? Once in a while love gives us a fairytale
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Presocratic Philosophy
The Origins of Western Thought Philosophy as a discipline isn't easy to define precisely. Issuing from a sense of wonderment about life and the world, it often involves a keen interest in major questions about ourselves, our experience, and our place in the universe as a whole. But philosophy is also reflectively concerned with the methods its practitioners employ in the effort to resolve such questions.
The Experience and Perception of Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
First published Mon Aug 28, 2000; substantive revision Tue Nov 17, 2009 We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense.
Don Miguel Ruiz's book, The Four Agreements was published in 1997. For many, The Four Agreements is a life-changing book, whose ideas come from the ancient Toltec wisdom of the native people of Southern Mexico. The Toltec were 'people of knowledge' - scientists and artists who created a society to explore and conserve the traditional spiritual knowledge and practices of their ancestors. The Toltec viewed science and spirit as part of the same entity, believing that all energy - material or ethereal - is derived from and governed by the universe. Don Miguel Ruiz, born and raised in rural Mexico, was brought up to follow his family's Toltec ways by his mother, a Toltec faith healer, and grandfather, a Toltec 'nagual', a shaman. Despite this, Don Miguel decided to pursue a conventional education, which led him to qualify and practice for several years as a surgeon.
the four agreements, don miguel ruiz book - a code for life and personal development
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
First published Fri May 30, 1997; substantive revision Fri Apr 29, 2011 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. Often referred to as one of the first existentialist philosophers along with Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Nietzsche's revitalizing philosophy has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life, including dancers, poets, novelists, painters, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries.
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Short Quotes to Live By
Many times when you have some really interesting and short quotes to live by in your life through various mediums like funny short quotes and sayings or some famous proverbs, it works like the psalms! Just keeping them in your bag or writing them down on your book marker or desk is sure to motivate you in the daily mundane activities of life. Have a look at the collection of short quotes to live by, in the following. Here are some very short quotes to live by that I find extremely helpful and are few of my favorite inspirational quotes of all time. Some are considered as wise quotes and are amongst the very well-known quotes that teach you a lot and prove to be a guidance at times when you are lost, in spite of being short .I’ve mentioned my old bookseller-friend from Chicago, Paul Romaine on other occasions (profiled in CHI TOWN ), a mentor of sorts, who put the books of numerous socially conscious writers into my hands, suggesting: to be a real writer in America you must engage yourself with larger issues…matters of injustice…racial intolerance, “big business” (as it was called then), war, labor, the plight of the working class. One of these writers was the poet Tom McGrath and his book LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND . I remember buying the paperback when it first came out in 1962 (Swallow Press), and finding it tough going.
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