February 2011
86 posts
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...
– Bertrand Russell
January 2011
45 posts
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.
– Yogi Bhajan (via elige)
This looks pretty interesting for a history movie!
D. Rose - all character, no nonsense →
shubacca:
Who builds athletes like these nowadays?
Thanks to Ronak for this amazing article..
The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the...
– Victor Hugo (via quote-book)
Checking in on Your Privacy Settings on Facebook →
With all the privacy scandal going on around facebook, this link shows how you can make your facebook profile as invisible to the rest of the world as possible. It’s helpful to know where to stop the privacy leaks that there still is on facebook.
Don’t give a man a fish.
Don’t teach the man how to fish either....
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live
– Henry David Thoreau (via shubacca)
To all Penn Masala Fans!
Pre-order Penn Masala’s seventh album, Panoramic! If you pre-order now, you’ll receive a limited edition autographed copy of the album and a FREE copy of Out of Stock! Out of Stock is our compilation album consisting of our best songs from our first three albums (Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck). Check out their website (http://pennmasala.com) for more information.
Also…
For the...
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
– Sven Goran Eriksson (via somewiseguy)
He was a scholar, a poet and an orator; he was a mystic, a devotee, and a yogi;...
– R Ramakrishnan (author - Awakener of Modern India, on Swami Vivekananda)
Facta Non Verba: The Drop of Water Who Wept →
shubacca:
Swami Vivekananda said to Emma Calve, the opera singer who was repulsed at the thought of losing her ego/individuality:
One day a drop of water fell into the vast ocean. When it found itself there, it began to weep and complain.
The great ocean laughed at the drop of water. ‘Why…
only Swami V :)
Fearless monk →
shubacca:
Loved it!
I thank God everyday. I’m only an instrument and God is using me every...
– Cam Newton
Well said my man! Congrats to Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers on the National Championship!
Just a thought
shubacca:
It’s quite unnerving how powerful idealism and optimism are - you can get a whole lot done by creating your own reality, not living someone else’s.
^^
Word.
Teachers no longer promote learning, but productivity. The system has failed us....
– Garrett Kohler
said like a true baller :)
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings,...
– Deepak Chopra (via shubacca)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
– Plutarch (via coloursplashedsoul)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed...
– Sir Francis Bacon
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.
– Sir Francis Bacon
What you are will show in what you do.
– Thomas Edison (via kari-shma)
Happy New Year!
I have heard that “the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray”,
But no worries, there is always a time
For new beginnings, a new year to get into our prime.
What is there to a new year, is it just the party on its eve?
No, it is a time to once again look at what we have received
And what we have given, a time for us to introspect.
It is a time to think prospectively...