It's not really a word, rather a phrase, but has a meaning distinct from its relative "de facto" which means existing without legal authority.  I presume is it Latin.  Pro facto is literally translated as "for the fact", but it rather means considering or assuming a stated proposition as if it were fact.  As if.  That is to say, in doing so you ( Read more... )

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD ( Read more... )

You wouldn't worry
so much
about what others think
of you
if you realized
how seldom they do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

(Supports one of the Four Agreements: Don't Take Anything Personally.)

My resolutions for last year included a renewed emphasis on always doing my best. That practice allows me to go easy on myself when my best isn't the greatest. I did well on this resolution, especially when I decided to put my energies into doing the research that will allow me to be a good doctor, instead of simply doing what it took to pass my ( Read more... )

Morality is moral
only when
it is voluntary
--Lincoln Steffens, journalist

7 Common Habits of Unhappy People
Posted By Henrik Edberg On October 5, 2011
http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2011/10/05/7-habits/
( useful article!!: text saved )

http://lynnvannoy.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/an-evening-with-don-miguel-ruiz/

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep.
--Carl Gustav Jung during an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker in 1939

So. I didn't think I'd get this sucked into Flagstaff. Been running around visiting and hiking and shadowing Dr Welch, MD down in Sedona. Haven't even managed to spend a night in every guest room offered. It's kind of nice. Feeling really tired, though, in between all the activity. Perhaps I should lay around more and read another book ( Read more... )

THE DREAM THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED
( This place is a dream, Only a sleeper considers it real. )