I am a Genius and I apply my Wisdom - You got pace to burn!

Daily Productivity Scaffold

2007-07-22T05:55:00.000-07:00

Get up at 7pm

Start-of-workday scaffold (30 minutes)
Being grateful exercise* (under 10 minutes)
Review and update long-term plans (5 minutes)
Review today’s task list, and visualize a successful and enjoyable day (5 minutes)
Meditate and listen to any guidance that comes through (5-10 minutes)
Exercise

End-of-workday scaffold (20 minutes)
Prepare books and notes for the next day (under 5 minutes)
Plan next day (10 minutes)
Breathe deeply to clear mind and release work for the day (under 5 minutes)

*Find a quiet space and think about all the things you are grateful for until you start to cry... then keep going. That sort of crying were you're so full of joy that you can't take anything else in.

Skills

2007-07-22T05:41:00.000-07:00

Set your priorities. What you make important gets done:

Dancing - Breaking
Self-defense techniques
Social engineering
Qi Gong
Spiritual Truths and their Application
Photoreading
Mindmapping
Actuarial Skills
English Vocabulary
Chinese

Affirmations

2007-06-11T21:17:00.002-07:00

I act from inspiration not desperation.
I am a genius and I apply my wisdom.

Sexual Energy and it's Transmutation

2007-06-10T03:52:00.000-07:00

Occult or esoteric physiology is also studied, which refers to the study of the supra-sensible bodies of minerals, plants, animals (rational and irrational), and human beings. It is stated that everyone contains seven bodies, closely related to the Theosophical septenary, which Samael Aun Weor calls: physical, vital, emotional (astral), mental, casual, buddhic and atmic. Samael differentiates an intellectual animal from an authentic human being through the differences in the vehicles of emotion (astral body), mind (mental body) and will (casual body). Intellectual animals (common man and woman) are said to contain the Lunar Astral Body, the Lunar Mental Body, and the Lunar Casual Body, each referred to as many names throughout different schools of occultism. It is stated that these lunar bodies are the result of mechanical evolution through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms and therefore they are of an infrahuman or animal quality.[36] The only true difference between the rational animal and irrational animals is the intellect, which gives the former the ability to become humans, or as Samael Aun Weor states, the intellectual animal has the "seed" or potential of a human latently existing within its sexual organs.[37]

What are called authentic human beings, although physically appearing identical have crystallized the Solar Bodies: Solar Astral Body, Solar Mental Body, and Solar Casual Body. Lunar bodies are vehicles that receive the energy of creation (i.e. God) at the level of an animal, while the solar bodies permit the reception of a much greater voltage allowing greater levels of wisdom and superior emotion to be incarnated. Samael Aun Weor states that the solar bodies are collectively referred to as "soul" throughout many different religions, and cites that according to Jesus in the New Testament, the common person does not actually possess a soul (Luke 21:12 "In patience you will possess your souls.").[38]

Samael Aun Weor asseverates that the solar bodies are formed in the same manner that physical bodies are formed: through use of the sexual function. In order to form the solar bodies, sexual transmutation via sexual magic is taught.[39] Sexual magic is the arousal of sexual energies through the act of coitus but instead of expelling those energies through orgasm they are transmuted into higher octaves of energy.[40] Each successive Solar Body is the result of the saturation of transmuted sexual energy at its respective octave: firstly the "Christ Astral" is formed through "socking" the energy into a second octave, second the "Christ Mind" is formed by saturating, condensing or crystallizing the sexual energy into a third octave, and the casual body or "Christ Will" is formed through shocking the sexual energy, also called the "Sexual Hydrogen TI-12", into a fourth octave.[41] The "birth" of the solar bodies is what Samael Aun Weor states is the true meaning of being "born again." It is taught that the solar bodies are referred to in the Bible as the three sons of Noah or the three Christians in the (alchemical) furnace of Nebuchadrezzar.[42]

The topic of sexuality is approached from a very stern point of view, and it is indeed the crux of Samael Aun Weor’s entire message. He states that there are three fundamental types of sexuality: suprasexuality, which is the sexual functioning of someone like Buddha or Jesus, who naturally transmutes all their energy perfectly; normal sexuality, which is defined as those who have no sexual conflict; finally infrasexuality, a category which contains homosexuality, adultery, prostitution, masturbation, abortion, bestiality and any other "abuse" of the sexual energy.[43]

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Creation

2007-04-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

EMBODY YOUR VISION

BURN BRIGHT with the power and force of your Vision

Find a way to use everything: every letter, every conversation, every meeting, every chance encounter, every hobby, and fascination and passion and skill and gift to CRYSTALLIZE YOUR VISION

BECOME the TRUTH you want to see in the world model it: glow with it, vibrate, and resonate to it.

Good points on the subject of Magick

2006-09-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

*I sometimes point out that in the first few chapters of Initiation into Hermetics that Bardon suggests that the student develop the mental emptiness of mind of a Zen master, the capacity to visualize scenes and comprehend character and action of a Steven Spielberg, the chi or ki of a Tai Chi Chuan or Aikido master, and the psychological understanding of someone with several Ph.D's in psychology. This is asking a lot but I think it fits in with the universality of the system he has laid out.
*Bardon quite clearly emphasizes that the magician train to heighten his abilities as a human being and that he also learn to move among spirits as one of them and as an equal, who is also active within the sphere of history.*Furthermore, there is no human tradition that limits or defines your authority in the Bardon system. Your university is Divine Providence. The one requirement for admission is that you confront the darkness within yourself and that you learn to develop your five senses so you can perceive and be active on the inner planes.
*Each individual has to determine how much time and effort to give to the practice of a spiritual or magical system. If you give too much time to the spiritual, you then fail to develop your own personal interests and discover your place in history and your role in the society where you live. The net result is that you end up becoming like or a part of someone else's ideals and spiritual goals rather than those which express who you are. You serve a purpose or organization but it is not the one you could have discovered and which underlies your reason for incarnating.

And if you give too little to your training and practices, you limit the creativity and influence you could have in the world by being motivated from a higher level and gaining access to insights only possible to those who see the world through divine eyes.

Again, I think our age is a great place for discovering what works best for you as an individual and you as an individual get to make your own decision and delight in pursuing your own path of life.*Good magic involves a coordinated use of akasha, the mental plane, astral plane, and physical plane. There is the insight, intention, vision, and purpose of akasha. There is the supervision, oversight, accounting, and appraisal of methods and means of the mental plane. There is the energy, inspiration, motivation, and emotional involvement of the astral plane. And finally there is the hard work, building, and producing enduring results on the physical plane.

*Early on I point out that for myself the study of magic should only be undertaken if an individual has the highest commitments. This means an individual is focused within akasha from the beginning. I would also suggest that an individual first master his everyday life before developing his senses to perceive in the invisible world.

Everyday life is magic. It is the cauldron where our spirit is tested. If you have problems with work, relationships, emotions, mental clarity, physical health, work on these first. Dealing with these problems is the requisite training required for developing a magical will. And if you develop a magical will and succeed in using it to solve some great problem, akasha will still require you to succeed in everyday life in order to make further progress.

*Spend some time doing what is the opposite of all your talent, attention, and work. Develop the areas in which you are weakest. And then combine these opposites and your creativity will unfold. Magical equilibrium is not cheap. It comes with a great price. It requires you to give your full, undivided attention to the things you are weakest at.

*The Elemental Equilibrium is a dynamic state of active and constant awareness of self. Nothing within the self transpires without full conscious awareness. Each thought is evaluated as it occurs. Each emotion is evaluated as it occurs. And the only change that occurs in reaction to thoughts, emotions or events, occurs with one's full conscious awareness. In other words, the balanced individual is not thrown about willy-nilly by events or intruding thoughts.

This is why it is called "equilibrium". It is the solid foundation. The ground of self upon which the initiate stands and meets life. Just like in Tai Chi, if you stand in balance, then you can shift with external pressures without being toppled over or moved against your will.

The Elemental Equilibrium is not so much a discipline as it is a choice. I choose to remain grounded in myself. In order to remain grounded I have to continuously express my truest nature as clearly as possible. In order to know my own true nature, I must remain continuously aware of self. And this does not limit me since Self is limitless.

*We can substitute meditation, autosuggestion, belief, prayer, introspection, noble deeds, asceticism, wisdom, knowledge, love, silence, and humility in place of IIH.

You can read this and know why some people just seem to advance quickly on the Steps of IIH. They have already been in training for most of their life. They still have to work upon the different steps but it seems to come easily to them. Other studies do bring benefits to all magic which is again, why tolerance should be practiced. No one needs to feel because it works for him or her that not everyone else can get to the same place. It is why the path is termed as individual.

*And all that intelligence, experience, all that sharp and skillful mind and memory gets turned to the dark side. The man’s will is controlled by something no more than an infant’s blind craving to be satisfied, a baby’s scream that echoes with the cry of raptors and monsters long forgotten.

If it were Shakespeare you could say it’s a tragedy. He was a noble individual with a character flaw that determined his fate. He was greedy. But not really. I think a desire within him took over his mind and his reason, a desire he did not know, did not recognize, and did not understand.

A magician cannot afford to be so naïve and innocent when it comes to using his power. The power is divine and it is for a divine purpose. Throw in a little ego, a little desire for self-aggrandizement, a little need for recognition and respect, and self-delusion comes with it. Power is best used when it serves the purposes of love, the greater harmony and beneficence of Divine Providence. All other uses enable power to turn upon and destroy the one who is using it.

Noble Realms - Magick

2006-09-01T05:28:00.000-07:00

Hermeticism and Magick.

Bardon Elemental Evocation

2006-09-01T04:59:00.000-07:00

The spirits of the earthzone which Bardon describes provide for nearly every conceivable kind of assistance. There are spirits who specialize in protection, magical perception, wisdom, enlightenment, love, power, relationships, peacemaking, business, advertising, technology, science, industry, history, justice, music, art, poetry, healing, alchemy, sex, birth, death, the bardo, reincarnation, religion and ritual, any and all of the four plane, and the spheres of the solar system, etc. It is up to the student to discover and to make connections to these spirits according to his own needs and maturity.

University Subjects

2006-09-01T02:26:00.002-07:00

1: Actuarial
306-107 Accounting Reports and Analysis ($872)
316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics ($872)
620-121 Mathematics A (Advanced) ($872)
620-131 Scientific Programming & Simulation ($872)

306-108 Accounting Transactions and Analysis ($872)
316-102 Introductory Microeconomics ($872)
620-123 Applied Mathematics (Advanced) ($872)
300-101 Introduction to Actuarial Studies ($872)

Total: $6,976

2: Actuarial
333-201 Business Finance ($889)

300-203 Financial Mathematics I ($889)
620-201 Probability ($889)
325-201 Organisational Behaviour ($889)

300-204 Financial Mathematics II ($889)
620-202 Statistics ($889)
316-201 Intermediate Macroeconomics ($889)
333-202 Management of Financial Institutions ($889)
(300-205 Introduction to Actuarial Practice ($889))

Total: $7112

3: Actuarial
(333-309 Derivative Securities)

300-312 Actuarial Modelling I
300-313 Actuarial Modelling II
300-334 Financial Mathematics III
(316-317 Econometrics) (For Finance Major)
(333-309 Derivative Securities)
(732-103 Principles of Business Law)

300-314 Contingencies (25 Points)
300-315 Actuarial Statistics
300-316 Models for Insurance and Finance

4: Finance
333-402 Advanced Investments
333-404 Research Methods in Finance

333-401 Advanced Corporate Finance
333-405 Risk Strategies
333-410 Finance Research Essay

4: Actuarial
300-406 Risk Theory I
300-408 Advanced Financial Mathematics I
300-410 Actuarial Practice and Control I
(333-401 Advanced Corporate Finance)

300-407 Risk Theory II
300-412 Advanced Financial Mathematics II
300-400 Actuarial Studies Research Essay (25 Points)
300-411 Actuarial Practice and Control II

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Great Quotes

2006-08-19T02:02:00.000-07:00

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ... "Holy s*** ... what a ride!" - Anonymous

"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions." Eckhart Tolle

"You control your response and therein lies your freedom." - Montalk

"The universe is on fire with wonder, beauty, and ecstasy." - From the Undines to Humanity

"I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion." - "William Ellery Channing" :

Post on Death - By Lyra

2006-08-19T02:01:00.000-07:00

When we fret about death and get anxious thinking about it it's because on a deep level we recognize or feel that we're "not done yet." And that's usually because we haven't truly lived to our full capacity and done all that we could do in our time so far. We have unfinished business. Things we feel we still needed to do, loose ends that should have been tied up, rifts that should have been mended and resolved, things that should have been said, trips that should have been taken and sites that should have been seen. Accomplishments - possibly incarnational goals - that we envisioned for ourselves when we were younger that we still have yet to do.

It's a good idea if we haven't started doing so already to think in this manner. If I were to die in a year's time, what would I like to have done before I go? Is there a rift out there I would have wanted to mend before going? A trip I would have wanted to take? Some sort of do-good act I would have liked to have done? Problems arise when we mistakenly fall for the modern Western societal programming that we're all going to live to make it to be 105 years old, in a nursing home somewhere. No. We won't all live to be that old. Some of us are going to die within the next year, actually. And it's okay. That's the way it goes. Just make sure you don't have loose ends lingering before you go.

Just food for thought....

John Mayer | No Such Thing Lyrics

2006-08-07T03:19:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the real world
She said to me kind of condescendingly
Take a seat, take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
Id like to think the best of me
Is still hiding up my sleeve

They love to tell you stay inside the lines
But somethings better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out theres no such thing as the real world
Just a lie youve got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the so-called right track
Faded white hats grabbing the credits and making transfers
They read all the books but they cant find the answers
And all of our parents, theyre getting older
I wonder if theyve wished for anything better
While in their memories, tiny tragedies

They love to tell you stay inside the lines
But somethings better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out theres no such thing as the real world
Just a lie youve got to rise above

I am invincible
I am invincible
I am invincible
As long as Im alive

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out theres no such thing as the real world
Just a lie youve got to rise above

I just cant wait till my ten year reunion
Im gonna bust down the double doors
And when I stand on these tables before you
You will know what all this time was for

Vision

2006-07-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Disciplines

Mental

Communication:
*Neuro-Linguistic Programming
*Persuasion
*Photoreading
-Writing
-Relationship skills
-Poetry

Art:
*Concept Art

Abstract:
*Actuarial Studies
-Psychology/Parapsychology

Health:
-Nutrition

Wealth:
*Wealth generation/Prosperity

Physical

Communication:
*Dance
*Song
-Martial Arts

Spiritual

*Magic (Knowledge of all Knowledge
-Kabbalah
-Healing Arts

Materialistic
*Wonderful loving relationships
*Wonderful living quarters aligned to nature

Leadership

2006-03-04T02:54:00.000-08:00

"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." – Warren Bennis

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." – John Erskine

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore Hesburgh

"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" – Lao Zi

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." -André Malraux, Man's Hope

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." -Walter Lippmann

"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." -Fred A. Manske, Jr.

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved." - Rupert Murdoch

He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That rises unafraid and full of joy
Above the blackness of the darkest night.
He must be kind to every living thing;
Kind as the Krishna, Buddha and the Christ,
And full of love for all created life.
Oh, not in war shall his great prowess lie,
Nor shall he find his pleasure in the chase.
Too great for slaughter, friend of man and beast,
Touching the borders of the Unseen Realms
And bringing down to earth their mystic fires
To light our troubled pathways, wise and kind
And human to the core, so shall he be,
The coming leader of the coming time.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from "The Leader to Be"

Life

2006-03-04T01:57:00.000-08:00

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward enobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." - Albert Einstein

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein

"Some of their rules can be bent, others can be broken." - Morpheus

"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." - Dalai Lama

We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over other nations or become subject to them. Empires rise and fall; laws, forms of government, one succeeding another; the arts, the sciences, are discovered and are cultivated; sometimes retarded and sometimes accelerated in their progress, they pass from one region to another. Self-interest, ambition, vainglory, perpetually change the scene of the world, inundate the earth with blood. Yet in the midst of their ravages manners are gradually softened, the human mind takes enlightenment, separate nations draw nearer to each other, commerce and policy connect at last all parts of the globe, and the total mass of the human race, by the alternations of calm and agitation, of good conditions and of bad, marches always, although slowly, towards still higher perfection... – Jacques Turgot

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society." - Henry David Thoreau

Success

2006-03-04T01:56:00.001-08:00

"A man will make many mistakes, but he is not considered a failure until he begins to blame someone else." - John Wooden

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all." - Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - Dr. David M. Burns

"To freely bloom - that is my definition of success." - Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'" - Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

"Underpromise; overdeliver." - Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." – Stephen Covey

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau

"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can." - Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge

2006-03-04T01:56:00.000-08:00

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." - Socrates

"Ignorance speaks as if it knows."

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” - Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Growth

2006-03-04T01:55:00.000-08:00

"You can become involved now in a new exploration, one in which man's civilizations and organizations change their course, reflecting his good intents and his ideals. You can do this by seeing to it that each step you personally take is 'ideally suited' to the ends you hope to achieve. You will see to it that your methods are ideal. If you do this, your life will automatically be provided with excitement, natural zest and creativity, and those characteristics will be reflected outward into the social, political, economic, and scientific worlds. This is a challenge more than worth the effort...I bid each of you success in that endeavor." – Seth

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has..." - Margaret Mead

Mind

2006-03-04T01:54:00.000-08:00

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

The Now

2006-03-04T01:53:00.000-08:00

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein

"One instant is eternity;
eternity is in the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees."
- Zen Master Wumen

Self

2006-02-24T19:36:00.000-08:00

"If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself,
this would be the greater victory, because the greatest victory is over oneself..." - The Dhammapada

"Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action." - J. Krishnamurti

"He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred,
being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred." - The Dhammapada

"The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance." - Seth

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." – Confucious

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.” - Confucius

Mathematics

2006-02-24T19:34:00.001-08:00

"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine." - Kurt Gödel

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." - Albert Einstein

Peace

2006-02-24T19:34:00.000-08:00

"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life." - J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

"Not understanding yourself is not understanding the truth. That is why there is fighting among ourselves. If all the people in the world understood themselves, they would attain the Absolute. Then the world would be at peace."

"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding." - Albert Einstein

"War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else." - Marilyn Ferguson

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." - Thomas Merton

Relationships

2006-02-24T19:33:00.000-08:00

"Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win..." - Robert Grudin, "Time and the Art of Living"

Truth

2006-02-24T19:29:00.000-08:00

"One word of the truly inspired answers a hundred questions and avoids a thousand unnecessary words of explanation."

"One sentence of the Doctrine, which brings happiness to a person who understands,
is better than one hundred stanzas consisting of meaningless words." - The Dhammapada

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

Science

2006-02-24T19:28:00.000-08:00

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." - Albert Einstein

"Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualisation. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary." - Albert Einstein

"It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one. Science in its catechism has but few apodictic precepts; it consists mainly of statements which it has developed to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be content with these approximations to certainty and the ability to carry on constructive work despite the lack of final confirmation are actually a mark of the scientific habit of mind." - Sigmund Freud

"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large the scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, noone doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature." - Albert Einstein

"Science is but an image of the truth." - Francis Bacon

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

String Theory - "We still don't know what the fundamental theory behind string theory is, but judging from all of these relationships, it must be a very interesting and rich theory, one where distance scales, coupling strengths and even the number of dimensions in spacetime are not fixed concepts but fluid entities that shift with our point of view."

Wisdom

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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"We put thirty spokes to make a wheel;
but it is on the hole in the centre that the use of the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
but it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
but it is the empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while existence has advantages, it is the emptiness that makes it useful." - Lao Tzu

"To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance,
and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others,
by expressing in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty
- this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth.
All other happenings, incidents and attainments can,
in themselves, have no lasting importance." - Meher Baba

"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two." - Buddha

"Speech is the sign of living, but silence is life itself."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

"The higher you want to go, the deeper your roots have to be."

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” - Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Creativity

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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"Logic brings you from A to B, imagination brings you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"What is now proved was once only imagined." - William Blake

"Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs." - Seth

"The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." - Robert Olson

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything." – George Lois

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." – Ansel Adams

Subjective truth

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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

Soen-sa said, "Four blind men went to the zoo and visited the elephant. One blind man touched its side and said, 'The elephant is like a wall.' The next blind man touched its trunk and said, 'The elephant is like a snake.' The next blind man touched its leg and said, 'The elephant is like a column.' The last blind man touched its tail and said, 'The elephant is like a broom.' Then the four blind men started to fight, each one believing that his opinion was the right one. Each only understood the part he had touched; none of them understood the whole."

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." – Buddha

"γνώθι σ'εαυτόν" - "Know thyself"

"There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path."

Reality

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"Define reality for yourself before someone does it for you."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain." - Morpheus

"Remember also that if physical reality is an illusion, it is an illusion caused by an even greater reality.
The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning." - Seth

"You are like children with a game, and you think that the game is played by everyone. Physical life is not the rule. Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed. You suppose that any personality must appear in physical terms. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities besides the physical one. It is, again, your own viewpoint that is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and mode of existence." - Seth

"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out the window or when you turn on your television. You feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus

"I want to know god's thoughts... The rest are details." - Albert Einstein

"Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be and not to be arise mutually." - Lao, Tao Te Ching

"Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its.... beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious." - Agent Smith

"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them." - J. Krishnamurti

"The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system is our ennemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our ennemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they'll fight to protect it." - Morpheus

"You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart." - Seth

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - B. Fuller