While it's a wonderful [evolution] adaptation to be able to think ahead, plan, etc. This often carries one out of the HERE and NOW moment and keeps us on a treadmill of postponing our fulfillment. This[...]is about balancing our ability to look forward while remaining anchored in the present... the only place where love, happiness and peace could ( Read more... )

been practicing kicking and learning jpn on my own. it's fun but i'm terribly inefficient so i actually achieve little besides moments of "ah-ha"s. it might be better if there was a way to tangibly measure my progress ( Read more... )

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I've had this cassette called "名人演讲集" for more than 7 years. Chaplin's speech is my favorite one out of all the speeches on that cassette, but i never knew where it came from. then i watched the "Great Dictator" today and i know now.
( Here's the speech in english )

tried to type out the speech by memory, and there are some parts that i just don't remember clearly anymore ( Read more... )

we are gods with anuses....true...very true....we have thoughts, feelings and interpretations for the world unlike any other species.... unlike others who can only live for the moment, we expand our innerselves to yesterday, our curiosity to centuries ago, our fears to 5 billion years from now when the sun will cool, our hopes to an eternity from ( Read more... )