“We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.” NeedsWritingDoeSelfMightDesireCulturePathOur LivesBearsActivityEgoAncientAwakeningCoreOur SocietyPathwaysReduction Author:Natalie Goldberg
“Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.” ChildrenImportantSoulSelfDreamGamesLostNaturalWatchesPracticeCreativeDisciplineActivityPerformancesBreathingYour ChildrenAgendasJoyfulUniformsSelf DisciplineDaydreamingShuffleRecitals Author:William Martin
“I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.” MenBelieveSelfI BelieveBehindsStruggleActivityDeterminationUnconditionalOutstanding Author:Hermann Hesse
“Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.” LongSelfStatesLove IsActivityAnxietyConsciousPossessionUnconsciousAbsentIdentification Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.” LittlesSelfFeelingsReligiousCommonEmotionBrainActivityAmbitionRegardCeaseThese DaysIntimateLove LifeSentimentsOur ThoughtsOur LoveRichnessSpecksJellyCommon Knowledge Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.” BelieveHumansRealSelfBigsLastsNextI BelieveBusinessTechnologyCommunicationInternetActivityNotionWaveInstantMailPublishingExtensionsBloggingBloggersInstant Messaging Author:Eric Schmidt
“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.” WayShouldFirstsHumansSelfMatterHappinessPurposePleasureConditionsMissingActivitySeekingParadoxLastingTrue HappinessManifoldOutgoingHuman PowerLasting Happiness Book:Culture and Restraint Source: Culture and Restraint
“Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.” ChildrenSelfLearningTeachingEffectsActivityMereSurfaceTalesFascinatingSelf EducationVeneer Book:Towards a Psychology of Education Source: Towards a Psychology of Education