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I had a Powerpoint presentation forwarded to me with the following, which is supposedly what The Dalai Lama has to say on the millennium:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
   • Respect for self
   • Respect for others
   • Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want

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Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Inspiration, Life & Society, Wisdom

[Each morning] I read what I call My Practice, which […] is a living document, I continue to edit and refine it. As I grow and change, so does My Practice.”

1. The Universe desires to express itself through me and so every day I work at improving myself and the conditions around me. The more I improve and the more I can provide others, the more

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Author: Michael R. Shenker | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Said to be passed down from a fellow named Hermes Trismegistus (“three times great”)—the Greeks called him “Hermes” (the messenger for the gods), the Romans called him Mercury (pictured him with winged shoes) and the Egyptians recognized him as their god Toth. According to legend, he was a contemporary (and even teacher of) Abraham. Considered the father of science, his Laws capture the essence of … [ Read more ]

Authors: Brian Johnson, Burt Goldman, José Silva | Sources: PhilosophersNotes, The Silva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics | Subjects: Excerpts, Philosophy, Thought Starters, Wisdom

I’ve learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing “Silent Night.”
Age 6

I’ve learned that our dog doesn’t want to eat my broccoli either.
Age 7

I’ve learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back.
Age 9

I’ve learned that just when … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Wisdom

• I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
• I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
• I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
• I’ve learned that you

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Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Wisdom

1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting

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Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (October 23, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Insight, Wisdom

The secret to happiness in almost any relationship is knowing what not to say.

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The pool of knowledge is limited; it’s the pool of ignorance, speculation and misunderstanding that is infinite.

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But one thing that happens when we acquire too much “knowledge” is that, like Othello, we sometimes fail to distinguish it from what can never be known, which may not be untrue. Another is that we’re … [ Read more ]

Author: Pico Iyer | Source: The New York Times (December 31, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

On December 18, 1988, twenty-five years after his writing had been denounced as “anti-Soviet” in his native Russia and mere months after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity,” prolific poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940–January 28, 1996) took the podium at Ann Arbor and addressed the graduating class at the University … [ Read more ]

Authors: Joseph Brodsky, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (December 18, 2013) | Subjects: Advice, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom