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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: November 26, 2024, 08:17:06 AM »

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

"Be impeccable with your word"
"Do not take anything personally"
"Do not make assumptions"
"Always do your best"

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: November 06, 2024, 11:13:56 AM »

After all this time on this planet in this form and thinking about life's journey, I finally know what I want to be in this life and the next life or all the lives to come.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 22, 2024, 10:26:21 AM »

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem.”

“This is my secret – I don’t mind what happens.”

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” (my favorite  )

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand.  Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosophy Quotes -

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 15, 2024, 01:22:46 PM »

From my favorite poet: "Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open?" - Rumi

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 11, 2024, 02:36:24 PM »

One of the best love stories I have ever heard. Go into a love story for the other person "You." This is not only a love story but a story for any situation you desire. It is always about what you can bring for others.

One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.
A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.”
The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.”
The door was shut.
After a year of solitude and deprivation
this man returned to the door of the Beloved.
He knocked.
A voice from within asked: “Who is there?”
The man said: “It is Thou.”
The door was opened for him.

- Rumi

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 11, 2024, 09:05:22 AM »

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%201&version=NIV

I used to think that the book of Job is about over coming suffering, then I read a book called "The Obstacle is the Way." and I realized that it is a book on relentless persistence to a vision.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 09, 2024, 08:17:49 AM »

In Viktor Frankl's book 'Man's Search for Meaning' he describes a scene where the passengers of a train were dancing with joy. These are concentration camp inmates being hauled from one location to another for hard labor to serve the Nazis. They were dancing with joy with because they realized they didn't cross a certain bridge, which means they wouldn't have to bear the extreme weather condition of the other camp. For happiness and excitement, we do not need something truly wonderful in its own right. We just need something better than expected.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 07, 2024, 06:34:28 AM »

"Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made  to believe, but the maturity of the soul." - Aleksander I. Solzhenitzyn, the Gulag Archipelago

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 05, 2024, 10:21:48 AM »

Ghandi's list of Seven Blunders:

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 05, 2024, 10:00:16 AM »

Did you know that logic is branch of mathematics?  Here's an argument from Intro to Reason and Logic:

You can't win an argument with a crazy person.

All women all crazy.

Therefore, you can't win an argument with a woman. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: The unread letter(s)

« on: October 04, 2024, 02:33:36 PM »

I don't miss you during winter blizzards, or fall's beautiful colors, or even spring's promises of new blooms, but I miss you during summer sunsets. During those other times, I am too busy to stop and think of you.  It is during the lazy summer days that time slows down and one day rolls into the next and I miss you during its many beautiful sunsets. It is when a summer day is ending and another promised one is coming that I feel most lonely due to my wasted day without you, and I feel the emptiness because I know tomorrow's promise of a new day will come without you as well.   

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 04, 2024, 10:09:12 AM »

In a book on hypnotism that I listened to, there is one thing that a woman does that drives a man's animal instinct to come and approach her. Make eye contact with the guy and then look away to the right side. Later make eye contact with the guy again and then this time look down. Now don't look at him anymore. The message from her eye contact actions send a message of submission and triggers a man's animal instincts to pursue a submissive female. Nature's conditioning takes over and he simply can't help himself but must approach the woman. Good luck hunting. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 03, 2024, 02:02:14 PM »

The world doesn't have enough space for all the egos to be right, because someone has to be wrong. Right and wrong is a perception and a judgement from a limited, and probably negative, perspective. It is better to focus on love and kindness.  Love and kindness are never wrong and they create more for everyone.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:58:31 PM »

It is said that Ghandi so neutralized the hatred of the British so much so that he even scheduled his civil disobedience around their holidays, so that it would not inconvenience his enemies' family and religious times.  He completely neutralized their negative energies and all they had left was their love for the peaceful understanding man. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 02:32:39 PM »

One of the greatest baseball managers of all time, John McGraw employs a strategy that takes risks and tests the nerve of the other team by always stretching a single into a double or a double into a triple.  One should always take risk when in competition.