10 Tips to Let Go of the Past & Embrace the Future
"Two monks were on a pilgrimage. One day, they came to a deep river. At the edge of the river, a young woman sat weeping because she was afraid to cross the river without help. She begged the two monks to help her. The younger monk turned his back. The members of their order were forbidden to touch a woman.
28 of the best pieces of advice about life you'll ever read
Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway
how to be "perfect"
Wednesday May 30, 2012 Listen Download E-mail Share Excerpts from "How to be Perfect" by Ron Padgett
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
First published Mon Dec 22, 2003; substantive revision Mon Jan 30, 2012 Plato's discussions of rhetoric and poetry are both extensive and influential. As in so many other cases, he sets the agenda for the subsequent tradition.
Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills
The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills
5 Things That Really Smart People Do
Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? Not really.
In Honour of Love, Truth + Beauty: 56 Rare Quotes That Will Change The Way You Live Your Life!
I adore inspiring words and have always collected quotes and truisms, scribbling them in my diary or emailing them off to friends who were searching for some solace or simply to be uplifted. There’s something about a poignant, well-articulated string of words that really makes sense of the world around us. Motivating quotes are omnipresent these days and I don’t know about you, but I must admit I glaze over when I see the same old quotes being used repeatedly on posters or blog posts – which is why I’ve been spending time compiling the list below for the past three weeks, adding my favourites slowly but surely as they flew into my radar. I hope some of these ignite a fire within you and help you look at life with shining eyes and love in your heart. Please feel free to spread this list around (using the social sharing buttons below) and add to it in the comments. On Writing
more every day rituals
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist monk Post written by Leo Babauta. Are you simply moving through your day, without fully living?
Solitude and Leadership
Essays - Spring 2010 Print If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts By William Deresiewicz The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem like a contradiction.
13 Things to Remember When Life Gets Rough
We’ve all gone through hard times. And we all get through them. However, some get through them better than others.
Nine Strategies Successful People Use to Overcome Stress
My experience with insomnia and being able to cure it by systematically addressing the stress showed me just how much a problem stress could be and what it takes to resolve it. Just talk to people with insomnia and simply tell them to not stress, 95% of the time, it just doesn't work like that :(. Oh, but I'm not attempting to deny that stress can be a problem. I've just never experienced it to any note worthy degree, because I try, rather successfully, to keep myself from worrying about that outside of my control, remain honest and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. 'Don't stress' effectively means 'don't have the mental and physiological reactions that your body does'.
Quotes
"Those who give, receive. Those who take, are taken from. When you give something to someone, you also give it to yourself. What you're expressing to others you're also expressing towards yourself. The words you use about yourself creates the image you have of yourself.
