Everyone should be trying to discipline their mind every day, it takes work to get your brain thinking a positive and helpful way. You need to be in control of yourself not fleeting external influences.

Buddhism as a "Science of the Mind"

Mark Twain Quote

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; & anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would. I dunno.
- "Was the World Made for Man?"

Mark Twain

Cosmic Connections

Allot of good stuff here, take it slow.

An Introduction to the Transcendental Meditation Program

Working A 9-5 Job is Not For Everyone—Doing What Works For You!

Anger is weakness, not strength.

EB

We are gods to the tiny creatures all around and even on and in us- we are impossibly large and seemingly undying. We could crush or cultivate any number of them. Be a merciful god, tend to nature.

EB

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: 

the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Christopher Lasch

Andrew Cohen: The Epidemic of Narcissism

Lakota

Lakota spirituality is based on the circle. The Lakota saw the journey of life and death as a circular process. They also interacted with one another in a circular fashion, rather than in a struggle for domination.

The Lakota even used the circle’s symbolism in their architecture. Their houses (which are known as tipis) had circular foundations.

"Everything the Power does, it does in a circle." Lakota Proverb

"Creation is continuous." Lakota Proverb

"I am standing at the Earth’s center." Lakota Proverb

"A man’s life is a circle from childhood to childhood, and thus it is in everything where the power moves." Black Elk

"The power of the world always works in circles." Black Elk

"The center of the universe is everywhere." Black Elk

The Lakota Indians


This is very similar to the teachings in the Tao

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.


Ignorance is strength.





George Orwell 1984

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Indian Spiritual Guru @ TED India 2009 - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

From the Tao Te Ching

18

When the great Tao is forgotten,
Kindness and morality arise.
When wisdom and intelligence are born,
The great pretence begins.

When there is no peace within the family,
Filial piety and devotion arise.
When the country is confused and in chaos,
Loyal ministers appear.

Family

Don't Struggle To Make it - The Empowered Human: 360 Senses!

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

- Dune

Polarity

If I were to have both a good attitude at times

and also a bad one at other times

am I not still ME at ALL times?

Or am I one person,

another person,

or just ONE complex being?

This is just like the cat in the box (in physics) being both alive and dead until observed. Positive and negative are perspective, so reality is more complex and subtle than just black and white.

Schrödinger's cat

-EB

Hunab Ku

The Mayan glyph representing where in the sky the exact center of the galaxy was located named Hunab Ku was known to the Mayans as The Galactic Butterfly. Their entire cosmology and extremely accurate calendars were based on the existence and location of the center of the galaxy.