February 2012
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SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from “The Art of Controversy”, first translated into English and published in 1896.
Schopenhauer’s 38 ways to win an argument are:
1. Carry your opponent’s proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent’s statement...
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Two beautiful words: "but God"
8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. 9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave...
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“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person
who makes you the happiest but...”
– Sierra DeMulder, “Love, Forgive Me”
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Unrequited Love Poem →
You will be out with friends when the news of her existence will be accidentally spilled all over your bar stool. Respond calmly as if it was only a change in weather, a punch line you saw coming. After your fourth shot of cheap liquor, leave the image of him kissing another woman in the toilet. In the morning, her name will be in every headline: car crash, robbery, flood. When he calls you,...
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Poems aren’t supposed to make sense you whispered through cracks in the rain
It’s raining during an hour of the night drops are making the grass a river and my heart beat is recovering from a crushing thunder clap a slice of thick white light which penetrates the blackness on the inside of my eyelids lit up my rusting book case so the stories breathed for a second stories which I.gleamed...
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Your harsh words has melted my spirit, much like a snowflake melts on my tongue. It was you, it was the way you said my name. It was the kindest, sweetest sound I have ever heard, and I knew then - that I wanted to marry you. Because Love, pure Love will never return to you void.
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آن نیست که هست می نماید بگذار
آن هست که نیست می نماید بطلب
Leave that nothing that seems like existence.
Seek the existence that seems like nothing.
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
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“The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
“You are not at all...”
– The Little Prince
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Distant Thoughts →
You wanted to have it all, just like the rest. You wanted to feel the emotion of having everything and a sense of completion for once in your life, when it feels like a constant occurrence for everyone else. You just wanted to feel what it would be like to have it all, before you die. Are you being greedy? Or is it too much to ask for? Your heart cries at night, it’s usually happy when...
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The power is not so much in the way you pray, but who you pray to. God responds to an authentic heart. God is looking at the heart, the humility in one’s heart. Whatever we think has an impact in what we feel. Renewing the mind is the ultimate goal, but not always the place we start. Stand strong in every moment, and keep on going - this is an act of humility. All things work together for...
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You’ll never know love if you never surrender to it. You think knowing will heal you, fill some crater in your soul? You’re story may not have the happiest beginning, but it is the rest of your story that defines who you are, who you choose to be. So, who are you?
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