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Time and True Wisdom

Most of us measure the realities of life according to “time”. Without even realizing it, the context of time directs, defines, and limits almost all our thought patterns. Concepts like the past, the present and the future divide our lives as definitely as a play is divided into three acts: one begins where the previous one ends, until the play is finished. Such is the external world.

However, the clock keeps walking and calendar pages do not control actions in our inner world. When we develop the consciousness that develop and raises self-esteem, we get in touch with … (Continue Reading)

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5 quotes to live by

  1. “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.” (Bertrand Russell)
  2. “Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” (Sydney Smith)
  3. “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.” (Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama)
  4. “Happiness is as a butterfly which,

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Blake on Nature

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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Three Gifts

A well respected landowner required the services of a woodcutter. Soon, a burly man volunteered for the job. The landowner explained that, in order to get approved to the job, any candidate should axe down, in a single day, a leafy and huge cedar that was in front of his house. Faced with the daunting task, the woodcutter replied: “For Gods, maybe. But I don’t believe this chore to be humanly possible, so I retreat.” A second woodcutter arrived asking for the job, but once he heard the condition, it seemed to him that the landowner had become crazy. Like … (Continue Reading)

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On Good Sense

Even to cut a flower requires good sense. Good sense, prudence, sound practical judgment. There is nothing in the world which deprives us of enjoying this quality. Good sense allows us to be excellent managers, professionals, friends, husbands/wives, and especially, it opens the doorway to the most precious gift of human beings: self-confidence. Self-confidence is one of those virtues we frequently don’t know how to handle, or that simply we mistreat.

Good sense is the primary and the conditio sine qua non of a better and longer life. Thanks to it we are able to avoid wars, conflicts, … (Continue Reading)

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