ThoughtsOnLiving tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-284054 2009-12-01T11:09:00-08:00 TypePad Protection and Love tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d134c53ef0120a6de25e3970b 2009-12-01T11:09:00-08:00 2009-12-01T11:09:00-08:00 We will not protect what we do not love. - Stephen Jay Gould ThoughtsOnThinking

We will not protect what we do not love.

    - Stephen Jay Gould

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/12/protection-and-love.html To Be a Saint tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d134c53ef012875e02342970c 2009-11-26T11:02:13-08:00 2009-11-26T11:05:28-08:00 To be a saint is to be human because we were created to be human. To be a saint is to live with courage and self-restraint and more than that. To be a saint is to live not with the... ThoughtsOnThinking
To be a saint is to be human because we were created to be human. To be a saint is to live with courage and self-restraint and more than that. To be a saint is to live not with the hands clenched to grasp, to strike to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it; but it is to live with the hands stretched out to give and to receive with gladness. To be a saint is to work and weep for the broken and suffering of the world, but it is also to be strangely light of heart in the knowledge that there is something greater than the world that mends and renews. Maybe more than anything else, to be a saint is to know joy. Not happiness that comes and goes with the moments that occasion it, but joy that is always there like an underground spring no matter how dark and terrible the night. To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

- Received via email, quoting Frederick Buechner in ''The Magnificient Defeat''
 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/11/to-be-a-saint--to-be-a-saint-is-to-be-human-because-we-were-created-to-be-human-to-be-a-saint-is-to-live-with-courage-and-se.html Those Who Believe They Believe In God... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d134c53ef0120a60666d7970c 2009-09-30T19:36:22-07:00 2009-09-30T19:37:44-07:00 Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. -... ThoughtsOnThinking

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

       - Miguel de Unamuno

http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/09/those-who-believe-they-believe-in-god.html Time Perception tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65849357 2009-04-22T01:05:53-07:00 2009-04-22T01:13:31-07:00 Layers of Time: "Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span." * * * When Brian first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes,... ThoughtsOnThinking

Layers of Time:

Layers of Time - speed-layers-sm

"Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span."

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When Brian first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we are trying to stretch out what people consider as now.

The Long Now

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/04/time-perception.html On Privacy and the "Human Need for Connection" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64977115 2009-04-01T22:00:28-07:00 2009-04-01T22:30:28-07:00 We’re more than happy to report what we’ve eaten for breakfast, who we’re dating, the books we’re reading, even when we’re taking a bath. It seems as if we can’t wait to tell the whole world the most trivial facts... ThoughtsOnThinking

We’re more than happy to report what we’ve eaten for breakfast, who we’re dating, the books we’re reading, even when we’re taking a bath. It seems as if we can’t wait to tell the whole world the most trivial facts about ourselves. Yet when someone on the elevator asks us how we’re doing, we say, "fine" regardless of the true state of our condition.

It seems as if we’ve created social networks with a slew of supporting technologies without having any idea about who our next door neighbors are.

from Coding Slave

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/04/on-privacy-and-the-human-need-for-connection.html Happiness, Indirectly tag:typepad.com,2003:post-62999491 2009-02-17T22:38:04-08:00 2009-02-17T22:38:04-08:00 "Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product" - Eleanor Roosevelt ThoughtsOnThinking

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product" - Eleanor Roosevelt

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2009/02/happiness-indirectly.html Seen and Unseen Wonder tag:typepad.com,2003:post-60413842 2008-12-24T10:50:31-08:00 2008-12-24T10:50:31-08:00 The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive... ThoughtsOnThinking
The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

From the famous editorial "Yes Virigina, There Is A Santa Claus"

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2008/12/seen-and-unseen-wonder.html New Photo Album: Chihuly Glass Exhibit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-59532648 2008-12-05T01:47:12-08:00 2008-12-05T01:47:12-08:00 Shots from recent visit to the Chihuly Glass exhibit at the de Young Museum. Simply amazing glass work. ThoughtsOnThinking

ChihulyGlass
Shots from recent visit to the Chihuly Glass exhibit at the de Young Museum.  Simply amazing glass work.

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2008/12/new-photo-album-chihuly-glass-exhibit.html Thoughts On Creativity tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57145911 2008-10-17T12:22:44-07:00 2008-10-17T12:22:44-07:00 "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson (From this fabulous TED talk) ThoughtsOnThinking

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
    - Sir Ken Robinson

(From this fabulous TED talk)

 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-creativity.html In That Place Of More Wall Than Room tag:typepad.com,2003:post-54217948 2008-08-14T23:21:05-07:00 2008-08-14T23:21:05-07:00 "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had... ThoughtsOnThinking
"The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run — I like that sound, it's very soothing to me — and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again'."

        - Paul Simon
 http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2008/08/in-that-place-of-more-wall-than-room.html