“The two most important days of your life are the day you that were born and the day that you find out why.”
– Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), aka Mark Twain, an American author and humorist.
Category Archives: QUOTATIONS
Resist the invitation – don’t play their game
Real strength II
“Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.”
– Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), was an American moral and social philosopher.
Character
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Live by example
“Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.”
– Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779-1865; founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart)
If you still think innovation was a serious thing…
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Welcome back · mindfulness · happy first days
Welcome back from the summer break!
I hope you had an enjoyable time out there, refueling, relaxing, rejuvenating – whatever it takes to go through life with a conscious mind.
In the meantime, I started reading a couple of books on ‘mindfulness’ – a concept at the intersection of buddhist psychology and Western schools of relaxation and meditation. You may expect some inspiration shining through some of the selected wisdom I am going to post over the next few months, as usual scheduled for the European Friday morning…
Have a great time, and “live life happily, as if today was the first day of the rest of your life!”
– Marcus
Do it for yourself.
“Do it.
Do it for yourself, but do it.
And when the time has come, share it.
And let others become part of it.”
If there was one advice to unspoiled, authentic music, I could think of these words, inspired by the music of modern day’s troubadour – Estas Tonne.
After a 25 minutes enchantement of the audience at the Linz’ Pfalsterspektakel 2013, he clarified with the audience: “I am not playing music here. I am just holding the guitar while doing Yoga. So you happen to listen to me while I do meditation.”
“Be it for yourself, but be it.
And when the time has come…”
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The biggest disease of mankind
“The biggest disease of mankind is that we believe what we think. We believe that we are what or who we think we are. We have in a way declared the mind as our boss and try to live our lives according to his orders and judgements fully trusting him, without ever doubting or investigating anything he says.”
/Neeru/
Face tomorrow’s hope, not yesterday’s fears
