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Obviously I have way too much free-time!

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More from my recent emails -

Let’s not take doubts with exaggerated seriousness, or let them grow out of proportion, so that we become black-and-white or fanatical about them. What we need to learn is how slowly to change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions that are not merely intellectual or “philosophical” but living and real and genuine and workable.

Doubts cannot resolve themselves immediately; but if we are patient, a space can be created within us in which doubts can be carefully and objectively examined, unraveled, dissolved, and healed. What we lack, especially in this culture, is the right, undistracted, and richly spacious environment of the mind, which can be created only through sustained meditation practice, and in which insights can be given the chance slowly to mature and ripen.

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

greatergood berkeley - YouTube

63: It’s All about Passion | Chicken Soup for the Soul

Cheers.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From "Glimpse of the day" -

Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. There is a Tibetan saying: “If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.”

Patrul Rinpoche said: “The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.” People can become obsessed with their own theories and miss the point of everything. In Tibet we say: “Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Why we need best friends, because they laugh at the same stupid things we do. Because they give us honest advice. Because they will be there for us, even if they’re thousands of miles away. Because they celebrate with us when we’re at our best, but still love us at our worst."

Comes from this site -

Friendship Quotes Archives - Keep Quotes

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Our culture places a high value on happiness—having the best job, house, the most friends, things in general. We’re constantly in a state of grasping for something—filling ourselves up from the outside.

And it’s totally bumming us out.

Susan David is a psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. She says our obsession with happiness hinders our ability to do the hard work of living: being able to recover from setbacks when we inevitably make mistakes, or lose a job—you know, when that picture-perfect veneer we were working away at starts to erode.

More here -

Find Happiness by Embracing All of Your Emotions - Mindful

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
You’ve heard it said before—probably many times—that it’s important to live in the present moment. You also might have heard similar pieces of advice like:
  • “Don’t get caught up in thinking about the past or the future—live in the now!”
  • “Be present in your own life.”
  • “All you have is this moment. Don’t let it slip away.”

All of these (possibly overused) sayings boil down to the same basic message: it’s vital to live in the present moment.

How to Live in the Present Moment: 35 Exercises and Tools (+ Quotes)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my emails -

On the way home I spotted some crows and Steve said they are actually ravens. Then we got onto the subject of poetry because I said there is a famous poem about a Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.

Here's the poem -

Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven | Genius

I have learned quite a bit from my u3a poetry group.

Believe it or not human beings have been entertaining each other long before we had television & the wonders of cyberspace.

One thing people did was to memorise epic poems. Steve said he had heard of Homer but not much else about him.

Here's a bit of info about his epic poems -

Famous Poets |  

In fact it has bios on many famous poets - must share that link with some of our u3a mob.

You can also do a Google search for world's longest poems - some are a bit long for our group!

I did look it up and one religious poem is over 220 thousand verses!

Here's another I like -

Long poem - Wikipedia

Enjoy!
 
Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
i saw the title of this thread.....and jumped right on
as if waiting for this grand occasion

I have too much time on my hands
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Thief said:
i saw the title of this thread.....and jumped right on
as if waiting for this grand occasion

I have too much time on my hands
Click to expand...

It was tongue-in-cheek! :)

Actually I have to occupy myself cheaply because I have very limited income ...

So I read & meditate & do yoga & chant and write and sometimes I visit strange internet forums!

Hope you are using your time in a nice, sensible way!

Here's a few book suggestions if you want somerthing deep-and-meaningful.

10 Life-Changing Books that Will Stay With You Forever [LIST] - Goodnet

All the best
 
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