Very interesting article in psychology today On magical thinking/belief systems and how they can help us. Very much up my alley of interest.
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( Billy Gilman- We go on )

Wishes for a wonderful day going out to my own father and to all the wonderful fathers on my friends list, Make today count.

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby


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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle


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Earlier this week I finished the 12th and final book of The Sword of truth Series by Terry Goodkind... Bravo it was so worth the wait I still dont see what people saw in Robert Jordans series... Terrys is so vastly suprerior in character depth and strength of storyline if you like Sci fi/fantasy read it ... Its awsome and now the entire series is ( Read more... )

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck ( Read more... )

Welcome to Hypnoticon West in Los Angeles


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"Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening."~~George Gurdjieff


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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."~~George Orwell


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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."~~Maltz, Maxwell ( Read more... )