Just getting back on track

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. – George Eliot, Middlemarch

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Know Thyself, Part Deux

He who knows others

is clever; He who

knows himself is enlightened.

- Lao Tzu

Emotions just are... don't run from them

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look. - Pema Chodron

Why are we here? That's the fun question

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. – Richard Dawkins

The Flaming Lips' "All We Have is Now" (Music Video: Unofficial) from Brent Long on Vimeo.

Stunning Aeriel Photos Of Planet Earth - The most amazing bloopers are here

Growth

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats

 

Once again... know thyself

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

-Immanuel Kant

Getting More Smarter

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats

And Just because I couldn't resist:

And on and on and on and on and....

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost