December 2011
48 posts
In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back...
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (via app1ejuice)
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...
– Salma Hayek (via beautifulqalb)
To be free is to be able to perform right actions according to the dictates of...
– Paramhansa Yogananda (via prometheanreach)
Accepting responsibility for your life is your first and most essential act of...
– Barbara Marciniak, Path of Empowerment (via hybrid-machine)
I interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. ‘So,’ I tried to delicately ask,...
– Unknown (via thefreenomad)
You can remove out of the way many useless things which disturb you, for they...
– Aurelius (via prometheanreach)
Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us →
David Hume referred to causality as “the cement of the universe.” He was being ironic, since he knew that this so-called cement was a hallucination, a tale we tell ourselves to make sense of events and observations. No matter how precisely we knew a given system, Hume realized, its underlying causes would always remain mysterious, shadowed by error bars and uncertainty. Although the scientific...
Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via quote-book)
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however...
– H.L. Mencken | Submitted By: mynameismystery (via quote-book)
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can...
– Carl Rogers (via inspirart)
Aware of the suffering created by attachment to views and wrong perceptions, we...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via illuminatedbeing)
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
– Frank A. Clark (via quotesfulloflife)
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...
– Ernest Hemingway (via fracturado)
One is never intrinsically strong, just by nature. You must have been through...
– Alfred Döblin (via creatingaquietmind)
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...
– W.B. Yeats (via lucifelle)
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is...
– Richard Feynman (via pavorst)
There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.
– Buddha (via whosbehindthis)
Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.
– Albert Einstein (via wespeakfortheearth)
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via oniverse)
A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited...
– Albert Einstein (via cultureofresistance)
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more...
– Douglas Adams (via cultureofresistance)
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PatientsLikeMe: Connecting People, Conducting... →
Post #6 at Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media.
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Are Some Patients Joining Tuskegee 2.0? →
Post #5 from Mayo Clinic. What happens to your online health information?
Social Media and Health: Five Key Themes →
Post #4 at Mayo Clinic. Please let me know your opinions. What is relevant to you in how you use social media for your health?
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via philphys)