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“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” – Mark Twain.
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The conversation turns to the huge economic disparity between the United States and Bhutan. The average American earns nearly a hundred times more than the average Bhutanese. “Remember that house we saw on Long Island?” Marty says to his wife. “That woman had an entire walk-in closet just for her shoes. Here, some people don’t even have a single pair.
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The similarity with many religious experiences is striking. Renowned yogi Paramahansa Yogananda describes the moment of his enlightenment as a young student in India: “Soul and mind instantly lost their physical bondage and streamed out like a fluid… the flesh was as though dead; yet in my intense awareness I knew that never before had I been fully alive. My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body but embraced the circumambient atoms. People on distant streets seemed to be moving gently over my own remote periphery. The roots of plants and trees appeared through a dim transparency of the soil; I could discern the inward flow of their sap… A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes.”
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Embrace what you perceive and cross the flood. The sage is untied to possessions— having extracted the arrow, take care— Don’t long for this world or the next. FOUR EIGHTS, 1:8
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It’s said that the Swiss only become Swiss upon leaving the country. Until then, they are Genevans or Zurichers, or otherwise defined by wherever they happen to come from
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Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you decide—and boredom is a decision—that you are bored.
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Osho( aka Rajneesh); attending one of his lectures in Pune in early 70s, when queried as to why he charges for attending his meetings- he quipped- you cannot teach philosophy or impart knowledge to a poor/hungry man, unless the stomach is full( metaphorical) knowledge cannot be reached
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8. "Sankar Suvan Kesari Nandan Tej Pratap Maha Jag Vandan"
Meaning: Lord Hanuman is the beloved son of Kesari and Anjani, resembling Lord Shiva in splendor. His radiance is revered and worshipped by the entire world
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| “Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn’t formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who suffered.” |
| JENSEN HUANG |
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Jai Hanuman Gyan Gun Sagar Jai Kapis Tihun Lok Ujagar"
Meaning: Victory to Lord Hanuman, the ocean of knowledge and virtues. His glory illuminates all the three worlds, filling them with divine radiance.
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T Preface Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.1 HARUKI MURAKAMI HE INSTRUCTIONS Buddhists are given during the process of dying, at the moment of death and after death are the same whether the person dies peacefully in their sleep at a ripe old age, or unexpectedly because the causes and conditions that lead to sudden death have matured.
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The first-line therapeutic treatment for rumination syndrome is diaphragmatic breathing.
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2. "Budhiheen Tanu Jaanike, Sumirau Pavan Kumar Bal Buddhi Vidya Dehu Mohi, Harahu Kalesh Bikaar"
Meaning: Knowing that I am devoid of intelligence, I meditate upon Lord Hanuman, the Son of the Wind God. Grant me strength, wisdom, and knowledge, and remove all my afflictions and impurities.
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After a few minutes the nurses continued their rounds, and I found myself alone again. A hot June day was building outside the windows, and I could hear heavy equipment moving around at a construction site somewhere below. If I’d died, all this would be still happening, except that I’d be in a refrigeration unit downstairs, I thought. I tried to imagine how Xana would understand the news. Daddy died? Yes, sweetheart. When is he coming back? Never. Why not? Because he’s dead. Why can’t he come back if he’s dead?
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According to Nick Fresolone, a retired police-academy instructor with the New Jersey State Police Academy in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the “taillight tap” leaves fingerprint evidence on the glass of the taillight to prove that the officer was present at the scene. Ultimately, says Fresolone, if things escalate or otherwise go awry, the officer’s touch to the car’s taillight will have left a fingerprint in a place where investigators would know to look for it.
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A new study published Tuesday in Cell Reports Medicine reveals that bowel movement frequency significantly influences physiology and long-term health, with the best outcomes linked with passing stools once or twice a day.
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A tolerance for mundane tasks is fundamental to greatness, according to leadership transformation expert John Amaechi OBE.
"If you want to do these brilliant, exciting, dreamy things … you suddenly realise how much absolute boring dull grind goes into it," he writes.
"When I first started playing basketball my first coach had me doing pivot drills – when you stop, grab the ball, turn, turn back, pass the ball – I did that endlessly and I could never understand why this boring thing was important."
That all changed when he entered his first game and realised how vital pivot skills are.
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"Shri Guru Charan Saroj Raj, Nij Manu Mukuru Sudhari Barnau Raghubar Bimal Jasu, Jo Dayaku Phal Chari"
Meaning: I clean my mind with the remembrance of the lotus feet of my revered Guru. I narrate the pure glory of Lord Rama, who bestows the four fruits of life: righteousness, wealth, pleasure, and liberation.
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Another set of constraints on what counts as good thinking derives from features of the agent’s own mind. Agents differ in their cognitive capacities, and what counts as good thinking will depend on the contours of those capacities. An exercise of thought that is remarkable in a six-year-old might be completely routine when carried out by an adult, for example. A good example of the need to keep these considerations in mind concerns the oftmade claim that one should not have inconsistent beliefs. On the face of things, this prohibition would seem to be unproblematic given that inconsistent claims cannot both be true. But in order to comply with this injunction a creature must have some way of searching through its store of beliefs so as to check for inconsistency between them, and for creatures like ourselves who have hugely complex belief structures and limited processing capacities this is a hugely daunting task.
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Like the notes of an old violin, Thoughts talk to me within My mind, that shuttered room. Siegfried Sassoon, ‘Old Music’, in Rhymed Ruminations
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‘How could you, a mathematician, believe that
extraterrestrials were sending you messages?’ ‘Because the
ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same
way my mathematical ideas did,’ came the answer.
Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
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It’s an open question whether a full and unaverted look at death crushes the human psyche or liberates it. One could say that it’s the small ambitions of life that shred our souls, and that if we’re lucky enough to glimpse the gargoyles of our final descent and make it back alive, we are truly saved. Every object is a miracle compared to nothingness and every moment an infinity when correctly understood to be all we’ll ever get. Religion does its best to impart this through a lifetime of devotion, but one good look at death might be all you need
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During this neurological twilight, Carroll had an extraordinary vision. His entire life presented itself to him simultaneously and in great detail, as if twentyone years of experience could coexist outside linear time. “My whole life flashed before my eyes, from birth to the present moment,” Carroll says. “I thought of my wife. I thought of my mom. I thought of how much love I had for them. And then there’d be a sudden rush—no, no, wake up! And I’d start trying to treat Glende again. I’m the medic, I need to survive in order for these guys to survive. And then my inner reality again: It’s okay. Let go. You were loved. You loved them. Nothing else matters. There was just this total acceptance of what was happening.
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Lord Vishnu said, “Dear Narad, imagine the poor farmer is also performing the task which is equally difficult, still, he is managing to chant my name twice a day, now tell me, isn’t he is my biggest devotee?” Narad Muni humbly accepted this fact.
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We explore the notion that OBEs may engender these changes through ego dissolution, which fosters a deep-seated sense of unity and interconnectedness with others," writes the team led by neuroscientist Marine Weiler.
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"The sense of self is no longer centered on the 'me' and is perceived more as a process than as a separate entity," write the researchers.
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McKinnon is the first person ever identified with a condition called severely deficient autobiographical memory. She knows plenty of facts about her life, but she lacks the ability to mentally relive any of it, the way you or I might meander back in our minds and evoke a particular afternoon. She has no episodic memories—none of those impressionistic recollections that feel a bit like scenes from a movie, always filmed from your perspective. To switch metaphors: Think of memory as a favorite book with pages that you return to again and again. Now imagine having access only to the index. Or the Wikipedia entry.
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In years past, travelers could plan around “fire season,” steering clear of the hottest, driest times of year. But climate change is warming up the spring, lengthening the summer and drying out soil and vegetation, leading to more frequent, destructive wildfires.
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“You cannot die without losing consciousness,” Dr. James Whinnery observed in a paper titled “Psychophysiologic Correlates of Unconsciousness and Near-Death Experiences.” Winnery goes on to write: “Everyone should, therefore, have some interest in loss of consciousness since he or she will experience it at least once
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What doctors, nurses, and family members take to be a tragic end point, the dying often experience as an infinite expansion. The dying often say that they reentered their bodies only because the living still needed them.
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