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"Accepting that suffering is going to happen, and understanding that accepting that suffering ultimately leads to success, is the key to persistence, is the key to ultimate success."
If you think you understand this, then you clearly do not get it.
If you think you do not understand this, then you probably do, get it.
Sounds familiar.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s filling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace."
Vincent Van Gogh
Ursula Burns, a woman who has undergone tremendous change in her own life. Burns, 53, grew up in New York City’s Lower East Side, an area she has described as a tough, drug-infested ghetto.
Burns began her career at Xerox in 1980 as an intern, after completing her Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. She rose through the ranks to become the company’s CEO — and the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company — at a time when less than 20 percent of corporate executives are female.
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"The most successful people forge ahead. They realize that mistakes are simply data, providing new information to adjust your approach going forward."
Anonymous
“As I emerged from the porch of Santa Croce, I was seized with a fierce palpitation of the heart; the well- spring of life was dried up within me, and I walked in constant fear of falling to the ground.”
A psychosomatic disorder was named after the 19th century French novelist, Stendhal, who fainted after visiting Florence’s Basilica of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), full of masterpieces by the likes of Giotto.
Stendhal Syndrome is a “disease” that targets art lovers and represents a kind of overdosing on too much beauty. It causes a rapid heartbeat, chest pains, dizziness, hallucinations and usually concludes with the victim fainting. It’s also known as hyperkulturemia (meaning “an excess of culture in the blood”).
It has been called an ATD - art-transmitted disease - in which too much beauty becomes toxic. It is caused by aesthetic overload following the viewing of too many masterpieces and priceless objects in too short a time or in too confined a space. Philistines and bankers are of course immune
"Hope is the dream of a soul awake"
French Proverb
Pythagoras’ (Other) Theorem
Bane of many a high school existence, the guy who taught us the mysteries of the Triangle was a student of other, more profound mysteries. Here are some of the other, more profound ideas that he explored.
I don’t know about you, but I would have found mathematics a lot more interesting at school if they had related it to real life a bit more. Sort of like this :)
1. Reality is mathematical at its deepest level.
2. The cosmos is ordered because it obeys mathematical laws.
3. If the cosmos were not mathematical it would be permanently chaotic and random. No form of organization would ever have emerged. No life could have arisen.
4. Mathematics is the first language of the cosmos. Mathematics underlies reason, order, organization, pattern, logic, form.
5. God is mathematics come to life.
6. God is mathematical perfection.
7. The mind, both human and divine, is born of mathematics.
8. The mathematics of humanity can ascend to the mathematics of divinity: the latter is simply an inferior version of the latter.
9. Through the understanding of mathematics, humans can comprehend the Mind of God and enter into union with God.
10. The human soul reflects the mathematics of eternity.
11. Mathematics and philosophy can purify the soul spiritually.
12. The human soul can rise to union with the divine.
13. Certain symbols have a mystical significance, via which the secrets of God are revealed.
14. God has filled the cosmos with mathematical messages (codes) to the human race to provide the answers to all of our questions. We need only read the codes, but to do so we must learn to see through God’s eyes.
15. Good and evil have their origins in mathematics. Good is associated with those who wish to live in harmony with others; evil is the result of the desire to destroy harmony by treating others in a lesser way than one would be expected to be treated oneself. Good people seek harmony; evil people seek discord. Good people seek cooperation, evil people seek to put others down to raise themselves up.
16. God wants all good people to join him. He rejects all evil people.
17. Emotion is based on music, and music on mathematics. All of our emotions are reflected in music. Music can make us happy, sad, tearful, ecstatic. It can rouse us to dance. It can plunge us into despair. It can make us serene. It can make us restless. It can inspire us, or crush us. It can allow us to enter into communion with others. It can raise our minds to the level of the divine. Through perfect music, we can glimpse the perfect mind of God.
18. All things have a profound inner grasp of mathematics. Even when they do not know it, all things are carried along in the eternal flow of mathematics, the river of enlightenment.
19. Those who do not understand mathematics are those who have not had what is buried inside them brought into the light of reason.
20. Light and sound are mathematical. In the afterlife, we hear the Music of the Spheres and see the infinitely dazzling light patterns of eternity.
21. All Brothers and Sisters of the Order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy.
"All prohibitions invariably summon their Shadow opposite, but much more intensely than ever before."
Anonymous
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
Cain’s Arcade - awesome. Nirvan, too. Can’t really explain how simply awesome this is. Just watch.
"How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that is wise"
