I’m on a “quote of the day” email service and this one showed up in my inbox:
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
~ Demosthenes (384-322 BC) Greek Orator
The Greeks may have been onto something.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
This is a quote from the Dalai Lama. I found it on twitter. I think that is just delightful 
You’re putting me on.
-Igor
In my ongoing effort to re-engineer my life, I’ve found myself reading a lot from the Dalai Lama. There is a lot to learn from him. Maybe I can find a little more peace in my life, and by doing so, help provide peace to others. It’s giving me food for thought, certainly. One thing that really rings true: Negative energy sucks the life out of me, and I’ve had too much negative for too long. It’s not going to be easy to re-train myself to minimize the negative and focus on the positive.
Whether you agree with his philosophy or not, you gotta admit this is better than the usual fart-joke level of blog post I make here.
Compassion, love, and altruism are not just religious qualities. As human beings, and even as animals, we need compassion and affection to develop, sustain ourselves, and survive. What is the purpose of life? I believe that satisfaction, joy, and happiness are the ultimate purposes of life. And the basic sources of happiness are a good heart, compassion and love.
Tags: Dalai Lama, Young Frankenstein
I’m watching a movie and paused to get this quote on ‘paper.’
“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
It’s by Rainer Maria Rilke.
And this is less interesting – I had to turn on the air conditioning today. Dammit.
Tags: love
No run for me today, I’m alternating run and rest days right now to try not and overdo it. Which naturally leads to glancing at the weather just now and realizing it is about 10 degrees cooler today than it was yesterday, in other words a much better day for me to run. So it goes
I like this, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide text game (yes, we played when it was released):
You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.
And as long as I’m quoting Douglas Adams, might as well toss this one on the pile:
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Don’t read much into my selection of quotes, I may be on a down beat but that’s just par for the course and I’ll be bouncing along again soon. I’m off to start my day and hopefully not eff it after all.
Tags: despicable me