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Imri Haber
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:LLAP: All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Everything happens for a reason, that reason is usually physics. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Your focus determines your reality.


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them; and, to this end, I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses
Ch. 1, Introduction; section 4

Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
:LLAP: All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Everything happens for a reason, that reason is usually physics. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Your focus determines your reality.


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them; and, to this end, I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses
Ch. 1, Introduction; section 4

Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
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Memento Vivere. Memento Mori. Amor Fati. Acta Non Verba. Morior Invictus.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”


~Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space



“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”

~Christopher Hitchens



"We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically--with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings--without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?"

~Sam Harris

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers


"If you want to awaken all of humanity then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self transformation."

watch your thoughts, they become your words, watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny."


~Lao Tzu


"Man Conquers the world by conquering himself."

~Zeno



"The trials you face will introduce you to your strengths.

Devote the rest of your life to making progress.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

if someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation."

if you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid."


~Epictetus



"what progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The happy man is satisfied with his present situation no matter what it is

All Cruelty Springs from weakness.

Revenge is an admission of pain: a mind that is bowed by injury is not a great mind.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you need is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

It is not the man who as too little but the man who craves more, that is poor."


~Seneca



"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Courage is not shown in the display of rage, but in the ability to confront challenges with grace and composure.

Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person.

Humility is the foundation of all virtues, for it allows us to approach every situation with an open mind and a willingness to learn from others."


~Marcus Aurelius
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"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."

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If by Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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