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Quotes about life from Buddha

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:46:14 GMT

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”

“To understand everything is to forgive everything”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Clip Source: thinkexist.com

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”

“However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“A jug fills drop by drop.”

“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

Clip Source: thinkexist.com

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

Tags: religion, spirituality, quotes, life

How to be happy

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:43:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ehow.com

How to Be Happy

STEP 1: Figure out what is important to you in life. For example: Do you value a certain kind of job, material things, a relationship, time alone, time with others, time to relax, time to be creative, time to read, time to listen to music, time to have fun? These are just a few of the possibilities.
STEP 2: Think about times when you have felt happy, good or content. Where were you? Who were you with? What were you doing, thinking or feeling that made you feel happy?
STEP 3: Decide to make more time in your life to do more of what is important to you and makes you feel happier. To be happy, you have to make happiness a priority in your life.
STEP 4: Start with little things and work up to bigger ones. Little things might be reading for 15 minutes; taking a walk; calling a friend; or buying great-smelling soap, shampoo, candles or tea that you will enjoy every time you use it.
STEP 5: Focus on what is positive about yourself, others and life in general instead of dwelling on the negative. In a journal, write down as many positive things as you can think of. Keep it handy to read over, and continue adding to it.
STEP 6: Appreciate what is working in your life right now. In the major areas of your life, such as your health, job, love life, friends, family, money and living situation, what is going well?

Tags: life, happiness

Liberating Christmas from Christianity

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:43:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Episcopal priest makes interesting argument

Clip Source: www.counterpunch.org

There are some very good reasons why Christians should give up the fight to reassert ownership of Christmas and to stop resisting its so-called secularization.

Neither Christmas nor anything it stands for originated in the Jesus movement or in the early Christian Church.

In imperial Rome, the December 25 feast in honor of the Invincible Sun, Sol Invictus, was accompanied by the exchange of gifts, cutting of greens, lighting of candles, and public festivals commemorating new life.

In the 4th century, the Christian Church, having been adopted by the Emperor Constantine, was rather suddenly transformed from a persecuted minority into the official imperial religion of Rome. The Church responded by importing the Jesus' birth narratives of Matthew and Luke into the feast of Sol Invictus and erased every reference to the pagan gods.

To liberate Christmas from the clutches of Christianity would demonstrate a generosity of spirit on the part of Christians

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Ways of Seeing Time

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:32:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.unilan.net

Visualization is one of the first steps in coming to know an object. When we say the word "chair," for example, the first thing that comes to mind is a mental visualization of a chair – not as a single, concrete thing, but as a conglomeration of visual ideas of what the chair should look like. Such an image is a visual metaphor. But what is our visual metaphor of time?

TIME AS A CLOCK

Frequently, it is the clock

sundials, sandglasses, water clocks and candles.

A RIVER OF TIME

AN ARROW OF TIME

the Uroboros – a depiction of a snake eating its own tail.

a "life trajectory"

circular and elliptical shapes

an ocean

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
Groucho Marx

Tags: time, visualisation, artistic representations of time

things we didn't know this time last year

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:37:33 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: ...things I didn't know untill coming across this article

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.

7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.

11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.

15. Lionesses like their males to be deep brunettes.

10 on Ford GT40 by Tony Crowther

20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.

22. The length of a man's fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, scientists say.

35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.

37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.

43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
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45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.

52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
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56. The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.

67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

10 kebabs by Harpreet Punny

90. Ordinary - not avian - flu kills about 12,000 people in the UK every winter.

93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).

94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

Tags: stuff, general, knowledge, news, worldwide, bbc

"Politics and the English Language" - George Orwell

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:02:01 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Geroge Orwell on the art of writing clear English and how the language is abused at the hands of politics. One of Orwell's most famous essays and still as relevant as ever.

Advice from the author:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

These rules sound elementary, and so they are, but they demand a deep change of attitude in anyone who has grown used to writing in the style now fashionable.

Clip Source: www.orwell.ru

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

Tags: orwell, george orwell, politics, english, language, writing, essay, article, propaganda, advice

Buddha's quotes

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:57:22 GMT

clipped by: Arco-Iris

Clip Source: www.amidabuddha.org

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha

Sponsored by humaneInterface.com - Crestron Programming

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50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:52:20 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: The rest are at the site....

Clip Source: www.bspcn.com

Write a poem.

Cook a romantic dinner.

Give a full-body massage.

Pack a sunset picnic.

Pick wildflowers on the way home.

Burn a CD with love songs.

Give dark chocolates.

Read poetry together.

Prepare strawberries with fondue chocolate.

Snuggle together on a rainy day.

Leave little love notes everywhere.

Send a love email every day.

Take a moonlit walk on the beach.

Snuggle together while watching romantic movies (Casablanca, Audrey Hepburn are my favs).

Get good wine, watch shooting stars.

Take a bath together (use bubbles!).

Bring home good coffee or a decadent sweet.

Take a walk down memory lane - visit some of the special places from your early days of dating.

Make warm chocolate cake for dessert.

Make a scrapbook with photos, mementos, and little notes from you lives together.

Kiss in the rain.

Ride a ferris wheel.

Sneak away from a party and make out.

Bring home great take-out, and light some candles.

Fix something or fix up the house just to make your partner happy.

Slow dance to romantic music.

Tags: advice

Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:17:11 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Since witnesses first reported the unexplained marking—which appears to resemble a 19th-century male figure with a high forehead and large beard—this normally quiet town has become a hotbed of biological zealotry. Thousands of pilgrims from as far away as Berkeley's paleoanthropology department have flocked to the site to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green stain.

Clip Source: www.theonion.com

DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

"I brought my baby to touch the wall, so that the power of Darwin can purify her genetic makeup of undesirable inherited traits,"

"To those who would deny that genetic drift is responsible for a branching evolutionary tree of increasing biodiversity amid changing ecosystems, we say, 'Look upon the face of Darwin!'"

"Over millions of successive generations, a specific subvariant of one species of slime mold adapted to this particular concrete wall, in order to one day form this stain, and thus make manifest this vision of Darwin's glorious countenance," Cosgrove said, overcome with emotion.

Tags: evolution, darwin, humor

100 things you can make yourself!

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:19:40 GMT

clipped by: pinklily

Clip Source: www.simplythrifty.com

Tags: thrifty, money, creativity, crafts, homemade, artsy, hippy, bohemian, shabby chic

Holocaust Industry Alive and Well, Again and Again

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:22:32 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Haaretz Talkback:
THE MILKING OF GERMANY SEEM TO BE GOING FOR EVER!
This is getting scandalous and abusive.

Why not the third generation and even the fourth? Look at the legacy of slavery on succeeding generations of African Americans.

I should not want there dirty money.
Read the book of Rudolf Höss " Commandant of Auschwitz" and you understand that nothing,NOTHING can prepair what they have done without any culpability.

As a child of Holocaust survivor I am totally against it.

GOOD! GIVE THE THE PALS RIGHT OF RETURN TOO!
In socio-psychological terms, is there not a danger that such an agenda actually keeps the traumatic scars forever open, refusing to let them heal?

Who say, Norman G. Finkelstein is wrong?
In every country are million of people suffer from trauma, anxiety and depression. Million take tranquilizers every day and do not know about holocaust.

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

Survivors' children to sue German government for therapy

13/07/2007

An unprecedented lawsuit will be filed in Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday on behalf of thousands of children of Holocaust survivors demanding that the German government pay for therapy needed to help them cope with their suffering.

The plaintiffs will ask the court to declare a class action, estimating at least 15,000 potential patients. So far, some 3,000 Israelis have joined the suit, including reputed academics and performing artists.

"I think it's time to raise the cry of the second generation, who bear the scars on their souls, and recognize them, too, as Holocaust casualties," wrote attorney Gideon Fisher, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, in the suit.

"Both the experience of the second generation [of Holocaust survivors] and studies reflect an intergenerational transference of the trauma, [which is] demonstrated in naming them after Holocaust victims, expecting them to serve as memorial candles to them

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Tags: holocaust, israel, german, history, industry

Iranians have feelings too.

Mon, 07 May 2007 17:20:41 GMT

clipped by: ashleystar
clipper's remarks: very interesting.

Clip Source: www.time.com

Iran mourns America's dead

September 18, 2001: Iranian women light candles in Tehran's Mohseni Square in memory of the victims of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC. Even the most hardline Islamic clerics, who despise the United States, have been shocked into silence by the attacks. President Mohammad Khatami set the tone for Iran's reaction with a statement that in Persian rang with deep compassion: "On behalf of the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic, I denounce the terrorist measures, which led to the killing of defenseless people, and I express my deep sorrow and sympathy with the American people."

Tags: iran, terrorism, politics

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of all Time

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:14:09 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: Which is you favorite?

Clip Source: www.nerve.com

50. "More Cowbell," Saturday Night Live, 2000

This sketch provided a showcase for Will Ferrell's mugging and Jimmy Fallon's snickering

with a sterling performance by Christopher Walken

48. "Gerald Ford Dead at 83," Saturday Night Live, 1996

Dana Carvey impersonates Tom Brokaw pre-taping the announcement of former president Gerald Ford's death

46. "Celebrity Jeopardy!," Saturday Night Live, 1996

"I'll take The Rapists for $200."

"That's Therapists."

41. "Chicken Lady at the Strip Show," Kids in the Hall, 1991

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38. White, White Baby - In Living Color

[Video]

"I'm white and I'm capitalizing / On a trend that's currently rising / I'm livin' large and my bank is stupid / Cause I just listen to real rap and dupe it"

35. I Know Black People - Chappelle's Show

33. The Spanish Inquisition - Monty Python

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32. Four Yorkshiremen - At Last the 1948 Show

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31. Four Candles - The Two Ronnies

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22. "Went With the Wind," The Carol Burnett Show, 1976

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Tags: humor, humour, funny, bizarre, entertainment

Can We Live Without "Made In China"?

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:31:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I remember way back, when France conducted extensive nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll, we boycotted buying anything French. That was hard enough, but try avoiding "Made in China". It's practically impossible!

Clip Source: www.boston.com

A REPORTER called recently to ask me what consumers could do to protect themselves against potentially toxic products from China.

"Is it possible that cheap tennis shoes from China could have toxins in them that we don't know about? What about toys and food? How can we protect ourselves?"

We wanted to test our connections to China's vast economy in a meaningful way

Made in China labels became the roadmaps

Some labels were coy.

Where the heck is Transoceanic China?

Try finding birthday candles that aren't made in China. Or a coffeemaker, a toaster, or a baby doll

Spend a week checking labels and you'll get an idea of what we were up against.

I'd learned from those labels.

That a normal life without Chinese products isn't possible.

That we are so deeply tied to China that I can't envision how we could step back now.

figured a year of obsessively reading labels would give me some insight

"What do product labels really tell us?" she asked.

"Barely a thing."

Tags: china, trade, economy, safety, health

Boycotting "Made in China"

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:12:29 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

U.S. family tries living without China

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.

In "A Year Without 'Made in China,"' (Wiley, $24.95) Bongiorni tells how she and her family found that such formerly simple acts as finding new shoes, buying a birthday toy and fixing a drawer became ordeals without the Asian giant.

As the year unfolded, "the boycott made me rethink the distance between China and me. In pushing China out of our lives, I got an eye-popping view of how far China had pushed in," she wrote.

Since the boycott's end, Bongiorni has chosen a middle ground. Her family seeks alternatives but accepts Chinese products when most practical. But one habit from the boycott remains: It required her to think hard about what she buys.

Tags: china, shopping

Clipmarks | Candles Clips

Quotes about life from Buddha

How to be happy

How to Be Happy

Liberating Christmas from Christianity

Ways of Seeing Time

things we didn't know this time last year

"Politics and the English Language" - George Orwell

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

Buddha's quotes

Buddhism: Your Daily Meditation

50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap

Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

100 things you can make yourself!

Holocaust Industry Alive and Well, Again and Again

Iranians have feelings too.

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of all Time

Can We Live Without "Made In China"?

Boycotting "Made in China"

U.S. family tries living without China