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09.10.08Carpe Diem – How to Seize the DayPhoto courtesy of MissyV110 "I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau in "Walden", quoted by the Character Neil in the Movie "Dead Poets Society" Seizing the day, living life fully, sucking out all the marrow of life – how marvelous this sounds … Isn't that the very thing we are here for - to experience life fully? If we really look ...
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09.06.08Clock Time vs. Psychological TimePhoto courtesy of John Morgan "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time." - Meister Eckhart Our daily life is full of time. We are surrounded by time from getting up in the morning until checking the alarm clock in the evening. At work there are appointments and pressing deadlines. The news come at every full hour. By splitting our mental attention in such a way ...
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08.31.08What is The Present Moment?Photo courtesy of Todd Baker << technowannabe "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha I can remember when I first saw the book "The Power of Now". After I got several tools to fulfill my dreams, for instance in goal-achievement and personal effectiveness, I expected the message to be "Don't procrastinate, do it now!" This is the Now-habit and it is a powerful habit to develop. But this is not what ...
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08.27.08Personal Power vs. The Power of Now (Mind vs. Spirit) ?Photo courtesy of ellenkabellen "You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj I recently discovered the posting from MonkMojo called The Tony Robbins vs Eckhart Tolle Debate in which he shows Tony Robbins shouting "Feel my Personal Power" opposed to Eckhart Tolle answering calmly with "I am rubber and you are glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" … While this is kinda funny, it brings a typical debate to the surface: Do we become happy by fulfilling our deepest dreams and by being the best version of us ...
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07.12.08The Power of Now Review of the Book by Eckhart Tolle"A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What's the point? There's nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar managed ...
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