Desire is the hare, and Will is the tortoise

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

When I see bumper stickers that read my son made the dean’s list, I see all the sons and daughters that didn’t. Tracey Moffatt has this poignant series of works dedicated to athletes who’ve come in fourth place: no gold, no silver, not even bronze. Being number uno? Stardom is no dream to chase. We just need to be good. And make good work. So, be the caretaker of your vision. Make it famous. And above all, remember, that art is risk made visible.
– Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The machine, which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of
nature, actually plunges him more deeply into them. As for the peasant, so for the pilot, dawn
and twilight become events of consequence.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Ride

The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly coloured, and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question – is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.’ And we…kill those people. Ha ha ha. ‘Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because: it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.

– Bill Hicks

Courtesy: Abhilash

Your Job is to Live!

Your Job is to Live!
Your profession is to excel in whatever it is you enjoy doing.
Your career path is to grow taller, stronger, wiser and become a better human being.
Your ultimate desire in life is to be loved and cared for.
Your uncompromising principles to live by are to sleep well, eat hearty, exercise like crazy, work hard, and always remember to have fun.

If anyone (society, parents, lovers) ever tells you otherwise, tell them to “Get a Life!” (pun intended).

– King Comet

Gems from Jaggi Vasudev

“ A well-established or well-organized human mind is referred to as a kalpavriksha, or a wishing tree that grants any boon. In this mind, whatever you ask for becomes a reality. All you need to do is to develop the mind to a point where it becomes a kalpavriksha, not a source of madness. ”

“ Love is never between two people. It is what happens within you, and what happens within you need not be enslaved to someone else. For ten to twenty minutes daily, go sit with something that means nothing to you – maybe a tree, or a pebble, or a worm or an insect. After some time, you will find you can look upon it with as much love as you do your wife or husband or your mother or your child. Maybe the worm does not know this. at doesn’t matter. If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience. You realize love is not something that you do; love is the way you are. ”

Processor Performance

Intel Core i7	177730000000 Ops/Sec	100 Watts
GA 140 (Green Arrays)	96000000000 Ops/Sec	0.65 Watts
ARM Cortex A-15	35000000000 Ops/Sec	0.5 Watts

Who am I?

Who am I

You are not your stuff
You are not your work
You are not your assets
You are not your achievements
You are not your age
You are not your health
You are not your body
You are not your opinions
You are not your knowledge
You are not your memories
You are not your thoughts
You are not your emotions
You are not your personality
You are not what thinks it is you
Anything you can think about is an object.
You are not an object.
You are the subject that knows all objects.

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Thought is your enemy

A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, “Pray tell which leg comes after which?”
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run.