Whatever I Like

6. Other people’s opinions don’t matter. Being bogged down by what other people think of you is crazy! Half the time, the people who are sharing these opinions are complete failures and are projecting their wants, needs, failures and desires onto you. They are hoping they can live vicariously through your life because their life sucks. The only opinion that matters is yours. If you believe you can do the impossible, then you will.

It is not a quick fix program, it is not a program of the month, it is the process of personal and interpersonal growth and development, that require not only your continuing best efforts, but also your patience.   Real growth and development cannot take place overnight, you must pay the price over an extended period of time to reap the benefits of these habits.

"I felt that perfection in my body. It would seem it's a question of 'mirror neurons': when you watch someone doing something, the same neurons that they activate in order to do something become active in your brain, without you doing a thing. An acrobatic dive without budging from the sofa"

"True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. The camillia against the moss of the temple, the violet hues of the Kyoto mountains, a blue porcelain cup - this sudden flowering of pure beauty at the heart of ephemeral passion...The contemplation of eternity within the very moment of life."

"Death does not frighten me... but it is the waiting that is unbearable, this suspension of time when something has not yet happened and where we feel how very useless it is to struggle."

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science."

"There are unknown forces within nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she leads them to us; she shows us those forms which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."

Let us just say that the idea of struggling to make my way in a world of ...people exhausted me before I even tried:  I was the child of nothing, I had neither beauty nor charm, neither past nor ambition; I had not the slightest savoir-faire or sparkle.  There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demands upon my person

"That's where ethical education is essential - to cultivate judgement and articulacy about values in realms where the obssession with the algorithmic leads to binary thinking, or 'hacker 'ethics'."