February 2012
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Feb 29: memories and leap year
Towards the end of February, there is a tendency for people to talk of leap year. Expect more when someone knows somebody who was born on Feb 29.
But that is not why I am writing tonight.
Earlier today, I was at the hospital to provide emotional support to my brother and soon to be sister-in-law - they lost their first child just after 7 weeks and 5 days in utero. Like anything that has to do...
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“Don’t blame yourself for the way you are now. Don’t lament yourself in your past...”
– The Daily Enlightenment (via stellesque)
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“Life for everyone is a struggle against the sufferings of birth, old age,...”
– Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhism Day by Day: Wisdom for Modern Life (via foreverjuvenile)
The Tyranny of Bad History and the Unmaking of... →
iwriteasiwrite:
The power of well-written and researched history, by professional historians aware of their vast responsibilities, is that it provides the tools needed craft a better future for all. In Margaret MacMillan’s conclusion in The Uses and Abuses of History she wrote “…a citizenry that cannot begin to put the present into context, that has so little knowledge of the past, can too...
Theories of a Brown Monkey: A conversation with... →
brownmonkeytheory:
Mabahague: While it is true that it it’s a tragic over revision of the history of EDSA Revolution, that revisionism is becoming viral like the video of Baron Buchokoy. This only reflects the deepening frustration among Filipinos of the promise of change to which the leaders of the ‘86 Revolution…
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“Life for everyone is a struggle against the sufferings of birth, old age,...”
– Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhism Day by Day: Wisdom for Modern Life (via foreverjuvenile)
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alienbeliever asked: Your blog is one of my favorites. Keep having such great posts comming. Salút :)
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Spiritual Freedom: 25 Life Lessons
undefinedskies:
1: Life does not work through indecision. Indecision promotes blocks, confusion and stress. Make a decision and allow life to find movement through you. Trust yourself. 2: The 3 C’s of life are Courage, Capacity and Commitment. It takes Courage and a commitment to make many of life’s decisions, and capacity to follow them through. The 3 C’s of a successful relationship are...
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10 things science (and Buddhism) says will make...
blackcathacker:
1. Be generous “Make altruism and giving part of your life, and be purposeful about it,” Yes magazine says. “Researcher Elizabeth Dunn found that those who spend money on others reported much greater happiness than those who spend it on themselves.”
And in fact Buddhism has always emphasized the practice of dana, or giving. Giving hasn’t been seen purely as the exchange of...
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atthedarkendofthestreet:
“It’s been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don’t know any more—or I’m not sure. When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It’s rain and sun both, noon and midnight. You know, Zagreus, I think of the lips I’ve kissed, and the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that...
“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it....”
– The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (via verbumsat)
“The people of the town thought of her as a confirmed old maid and because she...”
– Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (via littleblackbelle)
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“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make...”
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“The Fault in our Stars” (John Green)
philosophicalmeandering:
“Kill her, take her money, on condition that you dedicate yourself with its help to the service of humanity and the common good: don’t you think that thousands of good deeds will wipe out one little, insignificant transgression? For one life taken, thousands saved from corruption and decay! One death, and a hundred lives in exchange - why, it’s simple arithmetic! What is...
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is...”
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“The Fault in our Stars” (John Green)
“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (via dormio)
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urban adbentyur: ang taksi, bow
lunes. ordinaryong lunes.
mahirap sumakay ng taksi nung lunes, kasalanan kasi ni ate, leyt na siyang umalis ng bahay. bukod sa mahabang seremonyas na magayos, aba, masyado siyang nawili na magpeysbuk, magchat, magtwitter, maglahat-lahat na!
tumigil siya sa pagpara at tumingin sa orasan sa cellphone niya. may 30 minuto pa naman bago siya maleyt sa trabaho, 10 minuto lang naman ang biyahe papunta...
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“Although Kierkegaard and Camus share similar thoughts on human existence, Camus...”
– Rosanna Picascia, “The Struggles of Faith: A Defense of Kierkegaard”
wow. I was writing a paper on this and this lady whose paper I found online, basically agrees with me. (via theory-to-praxis)
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