©2008-2009 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
Every monster was a man first.
~ Edward Albee (born: 1928-03-12 age: 81) Tiny Alice
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~ Dante Alighieri (born: 1265 died: 1321-09-14 at age: 56)
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
~ Maya Angelou (born: 1928-04-04 age: 81)
One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create.
~ Michael Anissimov 1995
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Be content to seem what you really are.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Confine yourself to the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius (born: 121-04-26 AD died: 180-03-17 AD at age: 58)
Exercise is like taking an anti-depressant; not-exercising is like taking a depressant.
~ Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
Happiness is appreciating what you already have.
~ Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
Hatred can never cease by hatred.
Hatred can only cease by love.
This is an eternal law.
~ Gautama Buddha (born: 563 BC died: 483 BC at age: 80)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler (born: 1835-12-04 died: 1902-06-18 at age: 66)
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
~ Samuel Butler (born: 1835-12-04 died: 1902-06-18 at age: 66)
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
~ Samuel Butler (born: 1835-12-04 died: 1902-06-18 at age: 66)
I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card (born: 1951-08-24 age: 58), Ender’s Game
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn’t good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
~ Orson Scott Card (born: 1951-08-24 age: 58), Enchantment
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can’t afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them… and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they’re gone.
~ Orson Scott Card (born: 1951-08-24 age: 58), Enchantment,A metaphor for the way we create addictions, just by pretending, for the time being, something is very important. Frantically trying to satisfy an addiction fans it. Or as Tony Robbins spins it, “Action precedes motivation”.
On the Day of Judgment, each person will be allowed to hang one’s unhappiness and sufferings on a brach of the great Tree of Sorrows. After all have found a limb from which their miseries may dangle, they may all walk slowly around the tree. Each person is to search for a set of sufferings that he or she would prefer to those he or she has hung on the tree.In the end, each one freely chooses to reclaim his or her own assortment of sorrows rather than those of another. Each person leaves the Tree of Sorrows wiser that when he or she arrived.
~ Friar Brian Cavanaugh Third Order Franciscan The Sower’s Seeds
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
~ Thomas Stearns Eliot (born: 1888-09-26 died: 1965-01-04 at age: 76)
Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life?
~ Havelock Ellis (born: 1859-02-02 died: 1939-07-08 at age: 80).
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born: 1803-05-25 died: 1882-04-27 at age: 78)
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, slowly changing the world.
~ Ann Frank (born: 1929-06-12 died: 1945 at age: 15)
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
~ Stephen Fry (born: 1957-08-24 age: 52)
Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.
~ Robert Goddard (born: 1954-11-13 age: 55) British novelist
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born: 1749-08-28 died: 1832-03-22 at age: 82)
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born: 1749-08-28 died: 1832-03-22 at age: 82)
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born: 1749-08-28 died: 1832-03-22 at age: 82)
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
to dispel the misery of the world.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
~ Tenzin Gyatso (born: 1935-07-06 age: 74) the fourteenth Dalai Lama
I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
~ Michael Jackson (born: 1958-08-29 died: 2009-06-25 at age: 50)
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
~ Mick Jagger (born: 1943-07-26 age: 66)
I release the past
And allow the healing power of love
Into my life.
~ Jai Michael Josefs song I Release the Past
There is nothing to need, hide from or fear. We are whole and complete, right now and right here.
~ Jai Michael Josefs song Open Up Your Vision
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
Everything is a gift of the universe — even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you yourself had done it.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
How soon will you realise, that the only thing you don’t have is the direct experience that there’s nothing you need that you don’t have?
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life — you win some and you lose some.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Eighth Pathway
I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Eleventh Pathway
I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Fifth Pathway
I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The First Pathway
I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life, and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Fourth Pathway
I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now — unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Law of Higher Consciousness
Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Ninth Pathway
I act freely when I am tuned in, centred, and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Second Pathway
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Seventh Pathway
I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Sixth Pathway
I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Tenth Pathway
I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Third Pathway
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
The Twelfth Pathway
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
To be upset over what you don’t have… is to waste what you do have.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.
~ Ken Keyes Jr. (born: 1921-01-19 died: 1995-12-20 at age: 74)
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
~ Coretta Scott King (born: 1927-04-27 died: 2006-01-30 at age: 78)
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
~ Coretta Scott King (born: 1927-04-27 died: 2006-01-30 at age: 78)
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
~ Coretta Scott King (born: 1927-04-27 died: 2006-01-30 at age: 78)
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~ Coretta Scott King (born: 1927-04-27 died: 2006-01-30 at age: 78)
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies — thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
~ David Herbert Lawrence (born: 1885-09-11 died: 1930-03-02 at age: 44)
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
~ David Herbert Lawrence (born: 1885-09-11 died: 1930-03-02 at age: 44)
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
~ David Herbert Lawrence (born: 1885-09-11 died: 1930-03-02 at age: 44)
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
~ David Herbert Lawrence (born: 1885-09-11 died: 1930-03-02 at age: 44)
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
~ Bill Maher (born: 1956-01-20 age: 53)
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
~ Guy de Maupassant (born: 1850-08-05 died: 1893-07-06 at age: 42)
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
~ Arthur Miller (born: 1915-10-17 died: 2005-02-10 at age: 89)
Look, we’re all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house — in the bedroom he’s asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he’s rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he’s paying his taxes, in the yard he’s raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he’s making a bomb to blow it all up.
~ Arthur Miller (born: 1915-10-17 died: 2005-02-10 at age: 89)
Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what wet’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I dont’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. Wet’re very insignificant.
~ Oscar Niemeyer (born: 1907-12-15 age: 101) architect of the city of Brasilia
I’the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
~ Peter O’Toole (born: 1932-08-02 age: 77)
Beautiful People
Somewhere in the Universe, somewhere,
There are some “really beautiful people”.
They are not like us.
They will never fight or go to war.
They are not like us.
If you want their life, they will give it.
They will never take yours.
They are not like us.
So where are these “really beautiful people”?
They are us, a long time away.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
Common Sense
If your happiness requires a thousand conditions,
you are a thousand conditions away from happiness.
If you accept yourself just as you are.
If you accept others just as they are.
If you accept life just as it is.
Then the door to happiness is open wide.And you can still try to change what can be changed.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
Consciousness Growth
Consciousness growth and technological advancement
need to go hand in hand together.
And be warned unless this happens
we shall forever see an escalating expansion
of our already plentiful killing fields.
Our skills in this area are already quite astonishing.
So let’s face it, the “forever” could present a problem.So let’s change the world.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
It Couldn’t be Simpler
The world you live in you can bless,
By loving more and demanding less.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
Making a Difference
We are now living in appallingly violent times,
that retribution, and justice are powerless to reform.
But we still fight wars to bring peace, even though we see that violence against violence equals mayhem.
We fail to realise that there is a beautiful part of the soul in all human beings that has the art of saintly alchemy.Through this alchemy bitterness is converted to kindness, insults into pardon, vengeance into forgiveness,
and the passions of hatred are transformed into love.
How? By loving those who hate.
By forgiving those who seek vengeance,
and by pardoning those who harm you.With practise this alchemy becomes so easy and habitual, that while onlookers may not even notice,
they cannot help but respond.
It’s all founded on the power of love.
What a truly beautiful way to bring
peace and oneness to this tragic world of ours.Go on, give it a try, I dare you!
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
Our Growth
We can only become as great
as the adversities which face us,
or as small as the luxuries
that surround us.
But there needs to be
a balance between the two.
Too much of the former
and we can be overcome.
Too much of the latter and we cannot grow.Its obvious really.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
The Abundance Puzzle
If poverty is having less than you want, what is abundance?Answer: Abundance is wanting less than you have.
So instead of constantly striving to increase what you have, try decreasing what you want. Let go of all those endless desires that can never be satisfied — all those desires that lead people into debt and despair.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
What a World!
What a world this would be,
If we loved unconditionally.
Peace on earth for evermore,
No need to fight or go to war.
~ Andrew Pirrie (born: 1935-04-25 age: 74)
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato (born: 428 BC died: 348 BC at age: 80)
No matter what you say or what you do
I know my love will see me through
And I just go on lovin’ you.
Yes I do.
I just go on lovin’ you.
~ Summer Raven chorus to song I Just Go On Living You
34 years ago my lover, overnight, changed from affectionate as a puppy to refusing to talk to me ever again. He told me that I was such a horrible person I should never get involved with anyone else again. I thought to myself, “He knows me better than anyone so he must be right.” I mistakenly believed something impossible had happened, and the event required some profound, maybe even supernatural explanation. I still feel wounded by the experience. Intellectually, I feel so frustrated by my own silliness, but my heart refuses to let it go. For example, I continally brace myself, preparing to be abandoned without notice. But at least now I know that is just the way life is. This sort of thing happens to people every day. Lovers meet someone more attractive, and they leave suddenly, dumping and exaggerating resentments, partly to help ease their guilt about leaving. I had changed and my lover did not like the new me, including losing 20.41 kg (45 lbs) pounds (from hefty to skinny), my withdrawal from the center stage spotlight of the gay lib movement and untreated manic-depression. He hid his distress from me, until he could hide it no longer. In retrospect, there were signs, but at the time, the ambush seemed to come totally out of the blue.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot with as sword instead of untangling it. The sword of consciousness growth is what I call the genie process: If you find yourself longing, reformulate the longing as a wish to an all-powerful magic genie. To be granted, the wish must have three characteristics.This forces you to be more practical. You discover often that your intense longings are too silly hold onto, or that they can be satisfied for now, by something easy to arrange.
- The wish must be granted right now. So for example you can’t wish to go on a holiday in two weeks, but you could wish for an airplane ticket in your hand right now.
- A five year old child has to be able tell if the wish were granted. So you can’t wish, for example, that you ex love you, but you can wish that he knock at the door with a bouquet of flowers.
- The wish has to be the minimal possible wish that would still make you happy do now. If you wish for $1000 when $100 would have done the trick, you don’t get the wish.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
As mammals, the duty of your parents was to raise you until you were old enough to look after yourself. If you reached adulthood alive, they succeeded. The rest is up to you, including clearing up any traumas from your early years.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
At least for the next few minutes, your only possible choice of playmates are the people in the room with you now, even if they are criminals or Republicans. Its them or nothing. You might as well enjoy them while you wait for any actions you attempt to attract more congenial company to bear fruit.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Beware what questions you ask yourself. Your subconscious could take it is a literal order if you ask yourself “I wonder what it feels like to be an alcoholic.”.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Contentment is wanting to do the things you can do, and not wanting to do the things you can’t.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Even a billionaire would happily sacrifice a billion dollars to save his child from a terminal disease. Which is more important, your money or your kids? Kids are more important, even when they are not at death’s door.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
For most people, the universe will never give you has much love as you need. You have no choice but to top it up by loving yourself.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Forgiveness does not mean conceding what the offender did was ok. It simply means you resolve to stop brooding about it.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
How well the world lives up to your expectations depends mainly on your expectations.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
How well the world lives up to your expectations depends mainly on how many expectations you have and how stringent they are.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
I write about my life to gain some perspective, to create emotional distance, all to reduce the pain.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
If you are driving yourself nuts, failing time after time to achieve something, consider attempting something else. Then the original goal won’t seem so life and death and perhaps you can take another crack at it later without so much drama interfering.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
If you are sick, the pain, nausea and other symptoms will rise and fall away in waves. The trick is to revel in times when you feel least awful, rather than only paying attention to your body when you feel the worst.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Imagine a future where you have reprogrammed all your major addictions. How would your life be different?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
It’s just an addiction.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61) said to yourself in a no-big-deal way. Recalling this simple phrase yanks me out of most flaps.
Manipulative people study their victims’ addictions. They alternatively trigger and satisfy addictions to prod their victims to behave as they want. If you are free of addictions, such people have no place to get a grip on you.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Most people watch television by checking what’s on, then picking the show they like best. You might imagine some lunatic who does it by asking himself “What would be the ideal show to watch? It should be better than any show I have ever seen previously.” Then he bemoans the fact it isn’t on. This is how many people operating their lives.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Often people are far more cruel to themselves than they would ever dream of being to another. Even when directed at yourself, it is still cruelty.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
One of the most dangerous ideas you can ever get into your head is that your partner owes you an explanation for leaving.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
People talk themselves out of love by reciting a catechism of things they don’t like about their partners. To counter, each day they could remember a new reason they are glad their partner came into their life.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Reflecting back on your life can stir up intense embarrassment and regret entirely absent at the time.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Science has discovered that if you write down five things you enjoyed at the end of each day, your happiness increases over time. I don’t mean groveling before or thanking some deity for the events, just recalling and appreciating them.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Seriously, the secret of being happy is not persuading the world to give you more of what you want. It is learning to pay attention to and deeply appreciate microscopic pleasures that were already around you.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)In the 1980s I went on a drive with Ken. He was like a little child noticing everything. He got such a charge out of a blue line of paint on a boat.
Some people collect grievances the way others collect stamps. They take the out from time to time to admire and cherish them. They reminisce over them and rehearse what they wish they had said at the time. This is one of the most efficient ways of creating misery for yourself.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
The closest person to a saint I ever met was Haia Burke. I met him circa 1973. He had a fringe of curly hair surrounding a bald dome. He tended to wear monkish white robes. He described himself as a gay, aging acid-fried hippie who was a member of some reasonably famous psychedelic music group. No matter how dismissive or rude people were to him, he simply did not notice. He treated everyone as if he were some sweet-natured child showering them with tiny gifts. He won people over eventually through sheer exhaustion.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
The secret to long relationships is incredibly simple: don’t do things you know annoy your partner. Frequently do things you know they like.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
There are two main factors to consciousness growth:~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
- Sharing your secrets and traumas so they no longer have such power over you.
- Learning not to let things get to you, i.e. reprogramming your addictions.
Time is not money. Unless you are living in poverty, twice is much money will make scarcely any difference to your happiness, but twice as much time to enjoy yourself…
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
We humans evolved over nearly all our history in groups of 1000 or less. Today, because of the Internet and mass communications we are aware of the suffering of all seven billion people on the planet, and hundreds of other species as well. We now know about coming catastrophes such as the global warming, the energy crunch, mass extinctions, running out of water, overpopulation, accidental nuclear war, earthquakes, tsunamis, galactic debris crashing into earth… However, we have not evolved a way to recalibrate our sensitivity. No wonder pharmaceutical companies are doing a roaring business in anti-depressants.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
We humans have such vaulting ambition that it is not enough we lead successful lives. We also have to make some contribution to humanity so spectacular that posterity will talk of it for centuries after our deaths. Count how many people have ever succeeded in this endeavor. Compute the odds. This demand sets yourself up for bitter disappointment.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When I lived in an uninsulated cabin on Quadra Island surrounded by snow, I did not earn enough money for heat or food. As I sat wrapped in a sleeping bag at my computer, I would fantasise about fireplaces and hot food. I vowed never again would I complain about my circumstances so long as I was warm and fed.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When you dream, sometimes you incorporate room sounds into your dream. Waking consciousness is similar, except that you incorporate much more information from your environment into the dream. Most of your experience is still generated by your imagination. It is an illusion that you are more or less directly experiencing reality. As a consequence, you have much more choice about the emotional tone of your waking dream than you would ever imagine.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When you dream, your brain manufactures nearly all the detail. Most people presume that when they are awake, all the detail is perceived reality. I suspect much of it is manufactured too, especially comfort, the emotional tones in others’ voices, what is significant and emotions.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When you feel excruciating pain, it is your survival-brain saying “Don’t you ever dare do that again!” Make sure you get the message the first time.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When you feel frustrated at your inability to influence world events, it may help (and then again it may make matters worse) to consider that many famous and powerful people think as you do and are similarly frustrated.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
When you look back or your life, only a few things are important. What counts are: What did you contribute? What did you accomplish? What interesting things did you do? What loving times did you have?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
You are constantly changing. Even your skeleton regenerates itself 14 times over your life. It is a lie to say “I am”. What you mean is, “Right now, I feel — ”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
You had better get on with accepting your situation. Aging means your objective situation will only get worse. Your only hope is reprogramming your mind.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (born: 1884-10-01 died: 1962-11-07 at age: 78)
The methods work if you do.
~ Living Love saying
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
~ Peter Shaffer (born: 1926-05-15 age: 83)
All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (born: 1792-08-04 died: 1822-07-08 at age: 29)
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
~ Baruch Spinoza (born: 1632-11-24 died: 1677-02-21 at age: 44)
The way to screw up somebody’s life is to give them what they want.
~ Patrick Swayze (born: 1952-08-18 died: 2009-09-14 at age: 57)
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
~ Ivan Turgenev (born: 1818-11-09 died: 1883-09-03 at age: 64)
I am an old man and have had many troubles, most of which never happened.
~ Mark Twain (born: 1835-11-30 died: 1910-04-21 at age: 74)
All information is good, even when it is bad.
~ Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born: 1958-10-05 age: 51)What he means is even bad news gives you information you can use to ameliorate a situation. Without any information, you are helpless.
If the Ego is hateful, “Love your neighbor as yourself” becomes a cruel irony.
~ Paul Valery (born: 1871 died: 1945 at age: 74)
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
~ Mae West (born: 1893-08-17 died: 1980-11-22 at age: 87)
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