Idea in all religions: empowerment is surrender. Surrender to achieve.

The idea works because you can't surrender anything that you really owned in the first place.

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As a side note, anyone uninterested in comparitive religion is an idiot.

Fish: "I just don't get it, why did the fisherman stop feeding me worms after he'd hauled me into the boat?"

Life is essentially a story, not atoms ( Read more... )

If you're gonna do something bad, do it up. That's my opinion.

No evil deed, no hatred, no resentment, can survive the furnace of time. The only thing that stands between me and you and peace and love is eternity.

I am extremely intolerant and close-minded. It's called genius.

1. The difference between the memory of the past and the memory of a dream is non-essential ( Read more... )

I hate, hate, hate bad company when I eat. I can't forbear it. I am thrown into the worst mood.

The art of happiness.

As in investing, the secret is: diversifyIt is better to have many small sources of happiness than one big one; if the big source is contaminated, then you are ruined, thrown into misery ( Read more... )

I was bored and read up on old lj posts, found this:

Take a look at your Friends List, and list up to 10 things you want to say to 10 different LJ friends. Do not state who these people are. Have your friends speculate which # they could be and if they know others. Do not confirm or deny any comment speculation.I will do this, except that I won't ( Read more... )