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19 September 2004
We are drawn to the wisest teachers, seeking answers to those dilemmas that trouble us deeply. But authentic teachers invariably turn us back into our hearts, with renewed faith in our own process for discovering the wisdom within; for it is in our hearts that disquiet arises, and therein will it find its resolution. -Josh Mitteldorf | ||
18 September 2004
Linus Pauling was personally responsible for the modern view of the chemical bond. In the 1950s, he was also a powerful advocate for restraint in testing and development of nuclear weapons. He was awarded Nobel prizes for both Chemistry and Peace. | ||
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17 September 2004 "If it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger" - Eva Borsody Hormesis is the tendency of a biology organism to over-compensate to stress, so the organism paradoxically does better than one that isn’t stressed. Lab animals live longer if they’re exercised, if they’re starved or exposed to low doses of toxins or radiation, or disease or heat or cold or physical injury. It seems we were designed for challenge. | ||
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16 September 2004 "Since I was a little kid I've been told I have choices. Though I've never been dumb enough to believe that was literally true, I've also never been dumb enough to be literal. I have always believed I could choose to believe, or not believe, that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." | ||
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14 September 2004 "Grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the strength to change what I can, and the chuzpah to err on the side of throwing all caution to the winds." -Old Yiddish proverb | ||
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13 September 2004
The personal as political is an old idea:
If you want to awaken all of
humanity, then awaken all of yourself. | ||
