“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” Swami Sivananda
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling, Education on Jul 14th, 2009
I happened to stumble upon the writer William Arthur Ward and wanted to share some of his quotes that really sunk deep into my thoughts and perspective on my life and the influence my life has and/or can have on others…
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like […]
Posted in Education on Apr 16th, 2009
“An aspiring composer approached Mozart and asked the musical genius to teach him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied that perhaps he might start with something a little less ambitious, like an etude. The questioner took umbrage at this reply and said, ‘But you wrote a symphony when you were eight years old.’ Without […]
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling, Education on Mar 7th, 2009
Do you ever hear a whisper in the wind telling you that not everything is as it seems? The Dalai Lama once said, “Life is not an illusion; rather, it is like an illusion.” I did a meditation journal last semester for one of my philosophy classes on the Buddha and the Dalai Lama and […]
I was reading Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) today and found my favorite philosophical argument that I have ever come across in personal study. If you disagree with the argument you simultaneously contradict yourself and further prove the argument.
Truth is self-evident. If one claims there is no truth one is also claiming that the position “there […]
I feel as if life is a single grain of sand and we are approaching the fall to the other side of the hourglass. We are running out of time and have become so overturned that we are at a point where we can no longer tell which way is out. A single grain of […]
Posted in Education on Jul 17th, 2007
In the field of philosophy many of the thinkers one studies contain a Y chromosome in their genetic makeup. However, in some recent off-hand reading, I happened upon a fascinating truth written by an inspirational female. “The accumulation of facts is […]