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Hindsight
-Guy Kawasaki
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell
Wear sunscreen
-Mary Schmich
Man was given an imagination to compensate for what he isn't;
a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
Leisure
-W.H. Davies
Not all those that wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkein
Life is a tragedy for those who feel,
and a comedy for those who think.
-Jean de La Bruyère
The average person thinks he isn't.
-Father Larry Lorenzoni
Computers are useless.
They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso
Become who you are.
-Nietzshe
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
-Frank Tyger
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
-Anon
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The Art of Living course helps make you smarter, cures cancer, brings about world peace, and is well on it's way to solving world hunger too. Ok - maybe not all of that :) But it sure is one heck of a stress buster!
The course consists of about equal portions of "gyan" and another half of breathing exercises/meditation. I found the gyan half of things mixed - parts of it were interesting (pithy wisdom, particulary in their literature!) and a lot of it was stuff your mom already tried telling you. They do interesting things to try and reduce inhibitions among participants - and similar to the church - try to build a sticky community that provides participants an ongoing support group/circle. Different strokes for different folks :)
The breathing exercises were fascinating! They weren't kidding about people developing physical reactions the first few days - fingers curling, tingling vibrations, jaw turning numb, tongue being paralysed at times (yeah, yeah, i know; pity it passes :). Very, very curious. They (unfortunately) don't recur after the first few days, but the 45 minutes of breathing exercices do induce a trance like state from which you wake up amazingly refreshed and happy with the world at large.
8:33 PM
Monday, July 05, 2004
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