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

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:33:33 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCNp_jl5m6c

If you could have a wish, what would it be for?

There are so many wishes that come to mind, but I would wish for inner strength to complete my tasks the way that I want to. So that I may share happiness with those around me. 

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

« on: October 02, 2024, 07:50:21 AM »

At a friend's wedding a long time, I heard the following passage from the Corinthians 13:4-8. That was the first time I heard it. It sounded so beautiful to me, and so when you hear something new and interesting for the first time, you always remember the place and time you hear it. Most of us get love wrong because we came for me. The ones that get it right, they came for her or for him.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

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

« on: September 27, 2024, 05:32:28 AM »

Admiral McRaven's speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuIGBCF9jc

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

« on: September 19, 2024, 12:10:31 PM »

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do." - Henry Moore, Sculpture

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

« on: September 13, 2024, 10:22:03 AM »

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore

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

« on: September 02, 2024, 07:10:05 AM »

All Buddhist take a vow to not harm others but some go further to alleviate the suffering of others as well.

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

« on: September 02, 2024, 07:08:08 AM »

Effective Altruism:

This is the life that I want to lead because it will bring joy and happiness to everyone. It will be a satisfying and fulfilling life.

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

« on: September 02, 2024, 05:24:18 AM »

"The unplanned life life is unlikely to be fully happy." - Aristotle

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

« on: August 26, 2024, 08:17:46 AM »

All my life, I am pro-Israeli. I admire their strength as a people. Their deep traditions groom the best in humanity in the academics, science, commerce, and in the arts. Their resolve for "never again" after the holocaust strengthened their entire people. They live surrounded by their enemies and yet they thrive. However, Benjamin Netanyahu has made me think that the devil is now among the Israelis as once it was in Germany. There is a saying that goes something like, the devil's greatest trick is deceiving the world to believe it does not exist. I am still pro-Israeli, but I am not pro the devil.

If the Palestinian is to find peace and prosperity, they must learn from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They must use peaceful activism only. As Buddha says "Hatred never ceases hatred, but only through love. This is the ancient and eternal rule."

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

« on: August 22, 2024, 06:42:17 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEArG8ebxAg&list=PL6270221B59BCD6BF

1. A game plan
2. Follow the game plan
3. Always trade with stop loss
4. Diversificatio n
5. Filter your trade (capture the big moves)
6. Trade with the Trend so odds in your favor
7. Not listen to News. Real News = what the market is doing
8. Don't listen to your broker. conflict of interest
9. Money Management
10. Must have discipline in your trading

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

« on: August 19, 2024, 07:26:27 AM »

On suffering for inner strength: "What is to give light must enduring burning." - Viktor Frankl

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

« on: August 08, 2024, 11:56:09 AM »

“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonablene ss of it all.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning



"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now" - Victor Frankl

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

« on: August 08, 2024, 10:15:27 AM »

My stupid little self as a teenager stole $20.00 from a cousin when he came for a sleepover. It is a shameful moment in my life which demonstrates the hijacking of my mind due to wanting something which doesn't belong to me, and then taking it. I cannot make excuse for that boy but it is very wrong, and I was very wrong. I am so sorry.

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

« on: August 08, 2024, 08:21:22 AM »

“The story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem. This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishment s seriously." Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, "This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. "Yes." What did it say to her? She answered, "It said to me, 'I am here-I am here-I am life, eternal life.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

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

« on: August 07, 2024, 07:15:11 AM »

Steve Jobs 7 Habits for Success (I am not sure it's really his or they just put his picture there)
1. Read everyday
2. Make your health a priority
3. Learn from people you admire
4. Plan your day the night before
5. Keep your goals in front of you
6. Take action, even when it's scary
7. Have an attitude of gratitue