COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

3/10/2014

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"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." - Niccol Machiavelli

 
"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do."- Eckhart Tolle

 
"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength." ~ Eckhart Tolle


If you wait until all the lights are ‘green’ before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top. — Zig Ziglar

 « Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. » John Locke


« It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. » Seneca

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” 
― Dalai Lama


"We are stardust. Billion year old carbon. We are golden. Caught in the devil's bargain. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."



You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.




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"The enlightened person is loving, kind, and compassionate…" 12 Qualities of an Enlightened Person


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Japan Logs Record Current Account Deficit, Lowers Growth Estimate

TOKYO (AP) — Japan racked up a record...
Japan Logs Record Current Account Deficit, Lowers Growth Estimate

 
Michael Shermer @michaelshermer 
"We are stardust. Billion year old carbon. We are golden. Caught in the devil's bargain. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."



Bruno's heresies: skeptical of Catholicism, trinity, Jesus, virgin Mary, transubstantiation, soul transmigration & plurality of worlds.


 

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The weather report

THE “polar vortex” that brought freezing weather to North America chipped roughly $3 billion off American output in a week. It was a reminder that extreme...
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Editor & Publisher: Lesson Plans: Last year, Chalkbeat was formed after a merger between i...


The Perfect Solution: How Trans Fats Became the Healthy Replacement for Saturated Fats by David Schleifer

 
Swivel seats, big screen, espresso machine - inside the driverless car of the future





William Clay Ford Sr., Henry Ford's last surviving grandson, passed away at age 88



 
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is Wes Anderson's most gleefully silly film



Experian lapse allowed ID theft service access to 200 million consumer records < customers ran 3.1M lookups



 
Photographer snaps ballet dancers in action anywhere in the world








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The Right Amount of Stress


Pharma's Next Top Weight Loss Pill? "GS455534 suppresses binge eating and attenuates dopamine release in rats"


Google faces $5B antitrust fine in India — and this time it can't settle



Young Chinese entrepreneurs visit 1 of world's greenest buildings, One Bryant Park, on US tour



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Submerging hopes

IN 2007 UniCredit, an Italian bank, fought off ferocious competition from other Western lenders to buy Ukraine’s fourth-largest bank from an oligarch for a queasy...

The volume of takeovers by rich-world firms in developing countries quadrupled between 2003 and 2010, to $180 billion


Icahn has fired again in the eBay fight, but where's the PayPal plan?

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Icahn Fires Again In EBay Fight, Targeting Andreessen And PayPal Split

Billionaire tries to return focus to PayPal split, but can't resist a few more digs at board, Andreessen.




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Ask a Billionaire: James Dyson on Dealing With Failure

The vacuum cleaner company founder says "99 percent of my life is failure"
 
James Dyson on dealing with failure:
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Walt Disney’s $1 billion experiment in crowd control, data collection, and wearable technology:










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