February 2012
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12 Questions to Determine if Your Passion Matches...
(by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, full post found here)
1. Do I feel strongly about the need for this?
2. Does the idea fit my long-held beliefs, values, and convictions?
3. Have I dreamed about something like this for a long time?
4. Do I think that this is vital for the future of people I care about?
5. Do I get excited when I think about it, and convey excitement when I talk about it?
6. Am I...
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“Very different is the monastic way. Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed...”
– Zosima (in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the...”
– Greg Child
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Stop Sugarcoating the Bible →
via Hillary Burr.
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“What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for...”
– Dorothy Day
A person in line at the grocery store just traded me two organic apples for my vegetarian gumbo recipe. Awesome. Happy Fat Tuesday people, glutton it up tonight.
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“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.”
– Teilhard de Chardin (via mythologyofblue)
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“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never do back. From then...”
– John O’Donohue (in Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– ~E.E Cummings (via theimpossiblecool)
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“When I despair,
I remember that all through history
the ways of truth and love...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“It seems to me that, as a contemplative, I do not need to lock myself into...”
– Thomas Merton, William Shannon, ed., The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979)
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“Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon...”
– St. Ignatius Loyola
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“The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via proustitute)
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
– Marcus Aurelius (via nathanielstuart)
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“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Paul Rand (via jennaaaye)
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“From my experience, you can’t wait around to find what you love. You gotta work...”
– Kate Bingaman Burt via swissmiss (via ninakix)
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“Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Chicago after a week-long conference looking out over the river, I just burcontinued eats. I don’t know what caused them to begin, but they continue to roll down my face as I type this. Their trails feel worn and tired, and even though it doesn’t slow them, the glimpses of blue sky between the ‘scrapers seem to somehow ease their burden.
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Mindful Eating as Food for Thought →
by Jeff Gordinier for the New York Times
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A Brief History of Zork
mentalflossr:
Here.
Oh no….I feel the need to confess: I loved Zork on the Apple IIe with all my heart, with all my soul, and all my mind. This image legitimately brought a nostalgic tear to my eye.
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“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better...”
– Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter to shareholders in today’s S-1 filing for Facebook’s initial public offering. (via fastcompany)
——independent of whether or not the statement is honest coming from this particular source, there is a ton of wisdom in it for service driven organizations.
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Manifesto featured in Inc. Magazine!
Congrats Holstee!
holstee:
We are absolutely thrilled to see the the Manifesto (and awesome interview with Fabian on the passion and inspiration behind it) in this month’s issue of Inc. Magazine. Check it out! :D
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“Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to...”
– Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, talking about his visit to the White House and the State of the Union. (via bridif)
January 2012
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