"Always do what you are most afraid to do." - Anonymous"The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life, your values, or your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, 'This is who I make myself.'Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "forget you!". Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.The world may be devoid of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own. Live deliberately. You are free." - Anonymous"Hope makes you weak. Hope implies doubt and fear. Do not doubt your own capabilities. Do not say, "I hope," say "I will." - Anonymous"Nothingness is really like the nothingness of space, which contains the whole universe. All thesuns and the stars and the mountains and the rivers and the good men and the bad men and theanimals and the insects - the whole bit, all are contained in void. So out of this void comes everything, and you're it. So what I'm showing you is that all this hocus pocus about thefear of nothingness, is that, truly speaking, nothingness is what we want to talk about when wetalk about the spiritual. Only...it's all been ignored, it's all been put down! You say, 'Oh,nothingness? Bleh! Heaven preserve us from that!' But, that's where the secret lies!And obviously, the secret lies in the place you'd never think of looking for." - Alan Watts"Live by transience and realize everything is ephemeral. Some things, however, can be consideredexceptions, such as true love and wholeness of the self." - Anonymous"Never be intimidated by another man. No one is invincible; we are all mortal." - Anonymous"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." — Charles Bukowski"You have to die a few times before you can really live." - Charles Bukowski"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose" — Charles Bukowski"Don’t be afraid to talk about anything. You shouldn’t be afraid of reality." - Anonymous"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche"An honest man is always a child." - Socrates"To love someone is to expose the most fragile part of your being to them, and to hope that theydon't crush it." - Anonymous"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. " - Teddy Roosevelt"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein"I don’t think we’re here for anything; we’re just products of evolution. You can say, ‘Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose,’ but I’m anticipating a good lunch." - Dr. James Watson-----1. Realizing Your Dreams“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”Action: Visualize a life of your wildest dreams. What did you dream of doing when you were a child? What would you do if you had a million dollars? Create a vision for your goals and start breaking them down into small actions that you can take on a day by day basis.-----2. Overcoming Fear"Always do what you are afraid to do."Action: You must define your fears in order to conquer them. Create a list of everything you’re afraid of and start facing them one at a time. Make a commitment to yourself now to not let fear rule your life.-snippity snip snip------3. Intention and Desire“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”Action: Create a list of your intentions and desires. Wherever you go, take this list with you. Read it when you wake up and before you go to sleep.-snippity snip snip------4. Happiness“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”Action: Realize that happiness is a choice. In every decision you make ask yourself “how can I respond to make myself happy and fulfilled?”------5. Self Acceptance“If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”Action: Make a commitment to never go against yourself. Practice non-judgment and realize that the same part of your mind that condemns you is the same voice that caused you to take the action in the first place. We don’t even have to believe what we say to ourselves.-----6. Appreciation and Gratitude“So much has been given to me, I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”Action: Each time you find yourself complaining about something, re-direct your focus to something you are grateful for. Make a habit of transforming your awareness of troubles into an awareness of abundance.-----7. The Art of Simplicity“I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.”Action: The art of simplicity is knowing what to take away. Practice recognizing when you’re spending your time on unimportant tasks and re-focus on the important.-----The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: 1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. 3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. 4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. 5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found. 6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. 7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. 9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. 10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
i really kind of respect the buddha culture, as they promote peace and well being and not being scared to die, tolerance etc. also that meditation stuff is pretty cool and learning not to be scared would be nice
yeah the buddhist culture is amazing. I've only begun to read and understand some of their doctrines, like the Eightfold Path and all that, but it's really incredible.I think you might enjoy Alan Watts on Death, he ties in a bit of Buddhism.
cool, you use stumbleupon? great stuff on there, is this where you found this article thing in op?
