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In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers are very involved in religion. Surveys reveal that 35% attend religious services weekly and another 15% attend at least monthly. 60% say that religious faith is important in the… More >>

Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

Mind Trivias

Most of us use less than only 10% of our brain potential although we have access to the rest. We use more than 10% when we have a moment of creativity and inspiration.
The concept of a light bulb next to a person who have suddenly thought of an idea (in comic books, cartoons, or movies) came from Scientist Manuel Schoch’s research and observation – that when the brain is in a state of tranquility & observation, the brain lights up and we can access more information.
Our mind is inherently complex and likes to complicate things. Whereas, much in life is simple or has a simple (obvious) solution. We often miss what’s on our nose!
Left and Right Brain Relationship:

-          Left Brain – logical, male, west, scientific, grasping, conceptualizing, analytical

-          Right Brain – emotional, female, east, intuitive, spatial, creative, artistic, receptive

We have approximately 50,000 – 60,000 thoughts per day. Unfortunately, 95% of those thoughts we had today are the same ones we had yesterday! That would make only 5% of thoughts we think are new each day.
Are you thinking about what you’re thinking about? Read that sentence again and read it carefully. It’s not a play on words.
People can typically remember about 7 (±2) items in a random list.
The mind is an iceberg; it floats with only 17 percent of its bulk above water – Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)

Mind Insights

My life and work has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it.

Sigmund Freud   (1856 – 1939)

Austrian psychoanalyst

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein   (1879 – 1955)

German-born U.S. physicist

Out of My Later Years

If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard   (1937 -      )

Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter

Indian Ink

I took my mind a walk or my mind took me a walk – whichever was the truth of it.

Norman McCaig   (1910 – 1996)

Scottish poet

“An Ordinary Day”

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than T.V. It’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think that what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

Robert T. Pirsig   (1928 -     )

U.S. writer

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

In everything that is supposed to be scientific, Reason must be awake and reflection applied. To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. The relation is mutual.

G. W. F. Hegel   (1770 – 1831)

German philosopher

Reason in History

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Jules Henri Poincaré   (1854 – 1912)

French mathematician and scientist

La Science et l’Hypothèse

To take time to think is to gain time to live.

Nancy Kline  

U.S. author

Time to Think

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

Charles Scott Sherrington   (1857 – 1952)

British physiologist

Man on his Nature

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

John Fletcher   (1579 – 1625)

English playwright

“Love’s Cure”

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you: but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

Don Marquis   (1878 – 1937)

U.S. journalist and writer

“archy and mehitabel”

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius   (551 BC – 479 BC)

Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist

Analects

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Daniel Webster   (1782 – 1852)

U.S. lawyer, politician, and orator, 1825

Address on laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument

My thought is me: that is why I can’t stop. I exist by what I think…and I can’t prevent myself from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre   (1905 – 1980)

French philosopher, playwright, and novelist

Nausea

The Master said, “If one learns from others but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.”

Confucius   (551 BC – 479 BC)

Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist

The stream of our thought is like a river. On the whole easy simple flowing predominates…But at intervals, an obstruction, a set-back, a log-jam occurs, stops the current, creates an eddy, and makes things move the other way.

William James   (1842 – 1910)

U.S. psychologist and philosopher

The Principles of Psychology

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

Søren Kierkegaard   (1813 – 1855)

Danish philosopher

Philosophical Fragments

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare   (1564 – 1616)

English poet and playwright

Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

José Ortega y Gasset   (1883 – 1955)

Spanish writer and philosopher

Partisan Review, “In Search of Goethe from Within”

We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world…We must dare to think about “unthinkable things” because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

J. William Fulbright   (1905 – 1995)

U.S. educator and politician

Speech to Senate

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?

George Orwell   (1903 – 1950)

British writer

Coming Up for Air

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Jean de La Bruyère   (1645 – 1696)

French essayist and moralist

Characters or the Manners of the Age

If man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   (1749 – 1832)

German poet, playwright, and scientist

Sprüche in Prosa  (Rudolf Steiner (ed.))

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Bertrand Russell   (1872 – 1970)

British philosopher and mathematician

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers – or both.

Elizabeth Charles   (1828 – 1896)

British writer

Chronicle of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Voltaire   (1694 – 1778)

French writer and philosopher

The brain is the means by which we think we think.

Julian Tuwim   (1894 – 1953)

Polish poet

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft   (1890 – 1937)

U.S. writer

The Call of Cthulhu

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict   (1887 – 1948)

U.S. anthropologist

Patterns of Culture

A man’s life is what his thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher

Literature

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t
it’s almost certain you won’t

If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellows will –
It’s all a state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battle don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.

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When faced with ill-natured people, we should think about the fact that in the past they failed to see the harmfulness of the disturbing emotions which now overwhelm them.

They became accustomed to giving them full reign and this familiarity has carried over into their present life. Nor can they have created much positive energy. All of this accounts for their unpleasant conduct.

If we are constantly surrounded by nice people who treat us well and by those that are in good health, we will lack the opportunity to increase our compassion.

Therefore, when such a rare opportunity presents itself, we recognize its value and cherish it. In this way we use adverse circumstances to support our spiritual practice, which is a central theme of the instructions for training the mind.

People who are difficult to deal with offer us a precious chance to train ourselves to be loving, compassionate and altruistic…That is why they are like a precious treasure.

When I see ill-natured people,

Overwhelmed by wrongdoing and pain,

May I cherish them as something rare,

As though I had found a treasure trove?

From “Eight Verses for Training the mind”

by Geshe Rinchen

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I have finally kum to the konklusion, that a good reliable sett ov bowels iz wurth more tu a man, than enny quantity ov brains.

Henry Wheeler Shaw   (1818 – 1885)

U.S. humorist.

Josh Billings: Hiz Sayings

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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deson’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amazing, huh?

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quick note 2: thank you all people for the great response this video has got so far. Kutless is one of my favorite bands and this particular music is so beautiful that it inspired me to make this video and now I’m truly glad you guys liked it. Bless ya all! nota 2: obrigado a todos pelos comentários e pela receptividade dada ao vídeo. Kutless é uma das minhas bandas favoritas e essa música em particular me inspirou a fazer esse vídeo. Fico feliz que estejam gostando. quick note 1: the subtitles are in portuguese, I am from Brazil and though the video is intended for everyone, I felt like including my own language on it and allow portuguese speakers to receive the message… hope you guys don`t mind, its embbeded in the video because youtube didn`t have a subtitles feature back at that time. this is a music video I’ve made for “Promise of a Lifetime” by Kutless. Its got portuguese subtitles and some video footage from the Planet Earth series (BBC). Hope you enjoy it. Este é um video que eu fiz para a música “Promise of a Lifetime” da banda Kutless. Eu adicionei legendas em português e alguns trechos de cenas do DVD Planet Earth da BBC. Espero que você goste.

What are the grounds for divorce in New York?

If you are a resident of the state of New York, four of the grounds in New York divorce law are based on “fault” of one of the parties. They are:

1) cruel and inhuman treatment;
2) abandonment for one or more years;
3) imprisonment for three or more consecutive years;
4) adultery (which can include “deviant sexual intercourse”).
The only ground that doesn’t call for one party to be at fault is one year living apart under either a separation agreement or a separation decree granted by a court. This is the closest thing New York divorce law has to a “no-fault” ground for divorce.

In most cases, fault has no bearing on the division of marital assets or on spousal support.

Annulment

In New York divorce law, the court declares the marriage contract broken; in an annulment, the court says that there never was a marriage. Annulment is much more difficult to prove — and is much rarer — than divorce. If you want to go this route, you will definitely need to speak to an attorney. Ofcourse, if you want an annulment for religious reasons, you’ll need to consult with your priest, minister, or rabbi as well.

Documentation

You’ll need to provide your divorce lawyer with the following documentation in order to proceed with your dissolution. Start gathering everything together as soon as possible so that you can find out what might be missing and submit any requests for duplicates.

Personal Data

• Full addresses, social-security numbers, and phone numbers of both parties.
• Full names, birth dates, addresses, and social-security numbers of all children of the marriage, their school and grade.
• Information about any prior marriage of either spouse, including a certified copy of the divorce decree.
• A copy of any domestic contracts (e.g. a prenuptial agreement).
• Information about any previous legal proceedings between the spouses or involving any of the children.
• Dates and particulars about any previous separations, attempts at reconciliation, or marriage counseling.

Financial Data

• Your previous year’s income tax return, and any related data from the IRS.
• Information about your current income (e.g. a current pay slip).
• A list of substantial assets and liabilities of both spouses.
• Loan applications, broker’s statements, stock certificates, insurance.

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In the begining of this year , the most imoportant wish for everybody is healthy. And, if you do want to be health , then please never smok. There are many reasons for it.

A new study confirms that smoking raises a person’s risks of the major forms of esophageal and stomach cancers, while drinking has more narrow effects.

In a study that followed more than 120,000 Dutch adults for 16 years, researchers found that smoking increased the risk of the two main forms of stomach cancer, as well as the two forms of esophageal cancer — by anywhere from 60 percent to 263 percent versus non-smokers.

The findings, published in the journal Gut, underscore general health recommendations to drink only in moderation and to quit, or preferably never start, smoking.

In addition, they also suggest that smoking and drinking cannot account for the changing face of esophageal and stomach cancers in Western countries, according to Jessie Steevens of Maastricht University in the Netherlands and co-investigators.

Less smoking , more healthy, more happy !

a joke?Nice House

After John Elway dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows John a little two-bedroom house with a faded Broncos banner hanging from the front porch. “This is your house, John. Most people don’t get their own houses up here,” God says.

John looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on top of the hill. It’s a huge two-story mansion with white marble columns and little patios under all the windows. Wisconsin flags line both sides of the sidewalk and a huge Green Bay Packers banner hangs between the marble columns.

“Thanks for the house, God, but let me ask you a question. I get this little two-bedroom house with a faded banners and Brett Favre gets a mansion with brand new Packers banners and flags flying all over the place. Why is that?”

God looks at him seriously for a moment, then with a smile, God says, “That’s not Favre’s house, it’s mine.”

Milk – DVD is a 2008 American movie directed by Gus Van Sant and stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Josh Brolin as Dan White and James Franco as Scott Smith. This film is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Harvey Milk is a gay who is about to reach his forties, and he has achieved only few goals in his life. He always dreams to achieve something big in his life. On the Eve of his forty, he met a young dashing man — Scott Smith. Soon they both fall in love with each other. Soon they decide to move to San Francisco, where some districts are notably gayer friendly.

Being new to the place, Harvey opens a camera and photo shop in the Castro Street District and soon he make friends in the area and becomes aware of the issues occurring within the gay community. Soon he witnesses the cops to behave brutally with the gay people he loves. So he decides to stand against such brutality by taking an activist stance so that this injustice against his kind can be brought to light.

For the welfare of his gay community, Milk launched a series of political party campaigns to become the first openly gay man to be elected to public office. Even though he got disappointed in two successive elections, he was elected as the member of San Francisco Board of Supervisors at his third try in 1977. Unfortunately, Milk has a difficult relationship with his fellow Supervisor — Dan White, a former police officer and firefighter. Soon their chemistry ends in a cold fight, threatening the political career of Milk. Will Milk triumphs in his goal?