There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is, Comtempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer, nineteenth century philosopher
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
“Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.”
39. Being Tickled
40. Being completely utterly enjoyed
41. Reading ‘like nerds’
42. Harmonizing
43. Watching a show or movie that directly applies to the exact situation that’s going on in your life, and seeing a new perspective on it.
A woman surrenders her power, in trust, to her man. A woman expresses her love by trusting. Thus, a woman empowers and motivates a man. If he betrays this trust (not only through sex with others but by generally not having his game tight), he loses his power. In return for her surrendering her power, a woman gets what she really wants – her man’s power expressed as his intense, undivided, masculine love. When this happens, she is included in his sphere of self-interest. Thus, what was once two is now one.
- How hetereosexuality works
What true patience is, is knowing that you want it and knowing that it’s coming and actually enjoying the unfolding along the way. Understand that you never get it done. So you might as well be patient. You never get it done, because every time you want and receive, you also receive a new perspective from which to want. Life is a constant unfolding of new desires and then a constant alignment to those desires.
-Abraham Hicks
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Williamson
Sedate your hesitation”
- Incubus
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so.
Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.
The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of ‘I know’ and the devaluation of people who are ‘not spiritual’. Therefore it is important as a foundation to spiritual training and education to learn how consciousness manifests as the ego and its mechanisms.
Why give the ego more power by resisting and opposing it?
That which you resist stays.
Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you’re friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.
Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.
All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.”
- David Hawkins
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. (Benjamin Disaraeli).
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. (Mother Theresa)
“I’d rather shoot for the stars and land in the mud, than aim for the mud….and make it.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” – Jesus
“The world is the drama of the ego” David Hawkins
True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection. This is done by constantly remembering that you are the one inside that notices the voice talking. That is the way out.
There is nothing scary about life, if you are not attached to results.
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”
“Even if you are not yet ready to live them, try to understand that there exist higher forms of love that you must aim for, if you really want your love to make you happy. A woman cannot give everything to a man, nor a man to a woman, so they should say to each other, ‘Please understand I am not able to bring you total fulfillment. Even if I gave you everything I possess, your heart is so immense, the entire universe would not be able to fill it, and your intelligence needs a light I do not possess. Only God can give you everything. So, consent to use me only as a means of getting closer to God. I will stay with you, but it will be God you are seeking through me.’ That is how men and women should speak to each other, and then love would no longer leave them. It would become their permanent state of consciousness, and nothing would ever be able to trouble it. When you live love in this way, as a state of consciousness, you feel constant warmth inside yourself and a light that is never extinguished.”
—Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Killer night, in my boyfriends words:
After an hour or so, D and T (K’s ex-bf) left. A little while after that, E, K, N, and I jumped in the pool and got naked. shrug Girls sure look lovely when they float on their back looking at the stars, tits poking up out of the water. wub
We had been naked for about five minutes when some dude saw us from the other side of the fence, hopped it, took off his shirt, and dove in without saying a word. The girls got scared and huddled together behind me and I went and introduced myself, pretending to be cool. “Hey, sup? What’s your name? Oh yeah, just came from a party? Were there lots of naked people there?” Just making stupid chit chat, you know. Nothing interesting really happened here, no male confrontation or anything. The two girls who aren’t E put their swimsuits back on and we all ended up making friends with the guy for the next few hours. E and I stayed naked for a while, going back and forth between the hot tub and the pool. It was a bit awkward talking to a guy with clothes on while my willy is obviously drifting about in the hot tub currents, but what the hell. ;) I accept myself fully as I am, bitch! 8)
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”
“The problem of all lovers is that deep down they are afraid. They go on wondering whether this relationship will be strong enough to bear truth. But how can you know beforehand? If the relationship survives truth, it will be beautiful. If it dies, then, too, it is good because one false relationship has ended.”
-osho
18. Warm fires in the winter or stormy nights, and cuddling up to a movie.
19. Getting lost in breezes.
20. Pretend teleporting adventures and battles, and adding to our list for after college.
21. Warm cozy smelling good sweatshirts fresh off a body I like.
22. The yoga push down relaxation technique Gabe did.
23. Playing games I used to play when I was younger, like hide and seek, and running up the down escalator.
24. Holidays, especially christmas, with misteltoe and lights, and festive colors, warmth and food, and regressing back to childhood.
25. Crooked smiles.
26. New school supplies, and just being in the target school aisles.. and just being in target.
27. Looking at houses online, and finding my dream houses.
28. Butterflies and new crushes.
29. Waking up an hour too early & realizing, I can still sleep for another hour
30. When people don’t take my shit when I’m being unreasonable and put me in my place.
31. Sincere smiles.
32. Being lifted up, play fights, being aggresively put somewhere.
33. Finding something I haven’t seen in ages, and wondering how I forgot it.
34. Sharing childhood stories and memories.
35. Making lists. Making quality lists.
36. Finding skin tingling quotes.
37. Waterfalls, Dice, Anklets, Coasters and other ‘luck’ charms.
38. Real Yang Independent men, for all arenas.
“I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we’re great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I’m sure that’s what you’ll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can’t take this anymore. I can’t stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can’t, I can’t look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can’t talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably queer our friendship – no pun intended – but I had to say it, because I’ve never felt this way before, and I don’t care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing this to light means we can’t hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But God, I just, I couldn’t allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And, you know, I’ll accept that. But I know…I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, then that means you feel something too. All I ask, please, is that you just, you just not dismiss that – and try to dwell in it for just ten seconds. Alyssa, there isn’t another soul on this f*cking planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I’m with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can’t deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I’m forever changed because of who you are and what you’ve meant to me, which – while I do appreciate it – I’d never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of.”
- Chasing Amy
“Here’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But, they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of ‘em just cheat on you.”—Clerks
“Never judge a book by its movie.”
- J.W. Eagan
“Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time.”
-Danny Vinyard, American History X
But it wasn’t complete, wasn’t nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn’t share it with you. I couldn’t hear your voice or laugh about it with you. We live in a cynical world, a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You—complete me.
-Jerry Maguire
“At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it’s usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we’ve chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.”
-Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.”
-Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
“Even the losers get lucky sometimes”
- Tom Petty
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
- A. Sachs
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever.
~anon
There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh about being the bright spot in their day.
-Reese Witherspoon
Dirty Snow – Georges Simeonon
Power Of Now – Eckhart Tolle
Break It Down – Linda Davis
Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill
Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stevenson
I think there comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning. I’d like to have both. They say it can’t be done. Two very different paths. I mean, to be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present, and with no thought of what’s gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past, and obsess about the future.
- From an episode of Heroes.
“I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
- Harry S. Truman
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. ”
Mark Twain
