August 1 @ 5:25:42 p.m.
10 trends shaping the world
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August 3 @ 3:42:28 p.m.
Meditation Thought: Unlimited Possibilities
"Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man, if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong a man's life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these limitations and determining for himself what his duty is. "
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August 6 @ 7:00:08 a.m.
Progress
"We should so live and labour in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress."
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August 9 @ 5:02:19 a.m.
Convergence Culture
Henry Jenkins is the founder of MIT Convergence Culture Consortium of which this blog is a part. He, too, blogs. His latest book, Convergence Culture, has jumped from 145,103 up to 1,331 in Amazon rankings in one day. I've been privileged to read the book in its early drafts, and like many of Dr. Jenkins's lectures, it's an eye-opening text written in plain English.
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August 10 @ 4:35:47 p.m.
Meditation Thought: The Mind
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
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August 14 @ 5:29:58 a.m.
Men and Rivers
"Men, like rivers become crooked by following the line of least resistance."
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August 15 @ 5:42:56 p.m.
Leading Ideas: The Gift of Risk
"Do you think the people who were trying to reach the top of Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, people tried and lost their lives. Not even their dead bodies came back. But still, more people tried...risking...knowing that they may never come back. Why? Because it was worth it. Because in the very risk something is born inside you: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk." --Paraphrased from Osho (1931-1990), Indian Professor of Philosophy, Spiritual master
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August 17 @ 5:17:20 p.m.
Meditation Thought: Conversations with God
The theatrical trailer for CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD is now ready and you can see it before it begins to be shown soon in theaters:
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August 20 @ 5:18:21 p.m.
The ultimate measure of a man
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands during challenge and controversy."
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August 22 @ 10:29:42 p.m.
The world today is so prone to change in an unpredictable manner
"The world today is so prone to change in an unpredictable manner, that it may not always be advisable to follow too rigid a course. Be prepared to be flexible, and to take advantage of alternative and better routes which may arise unexpectedly."
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August 27 @ 5:53:27 p.m.
Heroism
"The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life."
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August 30 @ 5:32:07 a.m.
Neuroscience, Leadership, and Marketing
Stephanie West Allen, who writes the Idealawg blog (there are at least a couple of puns in that clever title), forwarded a link to an interesting article, The Neuroscience of Leadership.
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August 31 @ 10:35:59 p.m.
Meditation Thought: Inner Peace
Finding inner peace, this is a point of no return. You can never go back into the struggle. The struggle is over now because you will to do the right thing.
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