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Hell begins with a grumbling mood…

CowPi — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:38:16 +0000

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others…but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God ‘sending us’ to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

— C.S. Lewis (via) <link>

A Little Motivation

CowPi — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:21:11 +0000

A Little Motivation

Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue, you will change. Don’t let it stop you from being who you can be. Exhaustion tells you when you ought to stop. You only reach your limit when you can go no further.

— Daryl Furuyama (via) <link>

You never have to change what you see…

CowPi — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:44:43 +0000

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

— Thaddeus Golas <link>

Progressives and Conservatives

CowPi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:51:58 +0000

The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

— G.K. Chesterton <link>

There is in the worst of fortune…

CowPi — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:16:51 +0000

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

— Euripides <link>

We navigate our whole lives using words…

CowPi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:03:58 +0000

We navigate our whole lives using words. Change and improve the words and I believe we can change and improve life.

— Martin Firrell [via] <link>

What Bends?

CowPi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:25:25 +0000

What Bends?

Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead…only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no spoon.

Neo: There is no spoon?

Boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

— (Movie quote) from the movie, Matrix <link>

A river remains what it is by…

CowPi — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:53:11 +0000

A river remains what it is by changing what it contains.

— Author unknown (inspired by Heraclitus) <link>

The flowing river…

CowPi — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:41:19 +0000

In the flowing river there are so many things—fishes, leaves, dead animals—but it is always moving, and your mind is like that. It is everlastingly restless, flitting from one thing to another like a butterfly.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti [via] <link>