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Post by shadow on Jan 28, 2008 19:17:11 GMT -5
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." -- Victor Frankl
Sometimes life is what you make it. . .
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Post by counselor95 on Jan 28, 2008 20:01:44 GMT -5
What a marvelous quote!
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Post by cybear on Jan 28, 2008 23:46:44 GMT -5
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Post by privateatty on Jan 29, 2008 19:49:12 GMT -5
This one could have gone in my thread "Bar exam-like Anxiety", but not in its current incarnation. That's OK. shadow has adoped a profound and moving theme. You do have to read this one twice, though:
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object (as most authors agree), which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured. One can act upon it, and in acting upon it participate in it—even if in the form of struggle. In this way one can take it into one’s self-affirmation. Courage can meet every object of fear, because it is an object and makes participation possible. Courage can take the fear produced by a definite object into itself, because this object, however frightful it may be, has a side with which it participates in us and we in it. One could say that as long as there is an object of fear, love in the sense of participation can conquer fear. But this is not so with anxiety, because anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object. Therefore participation, struggle, and love with respect to it are impossible. He who is in anxiety is, insofar as it is mere anxiety, delivered to it without help.
ATTRIBUTION: Paul Tillich (1886–1965), German-born U.S. theologian. “An Ontology of Anxiety,” The Courage to Be, Yale University Press (1952).
One could say we are celebrating the love in participation...
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Post by jagghagg on Jan 29, 2008 21:49:09 GMT -5
“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed....Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. …Be kind whenever possible…It is always possible.”
The Dali Lama
Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists
1989 Nobel Peace Prize
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Post by judicature on Jan 29, 2008 22:57:26 GMT -5
I am a fan of the original Dune trilogy by Frank Herbert. This discussion reminds me of the "Litany Against Fear" often recited by characters in the books:
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
This litany has stuck with me over the years, especially the second line - "Fear is the mind-killer."
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Post by nothingventured on Jan 29, 2008 23:32:57 GMT -5
"Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time."
- Marian Wright Edelman b. 1939
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Post by govtattorney on Jan 30, 2008 7:30:32 GMT -5
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. "
- Dean Wormer, Animal House (1978)
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Post by emphyrio on Jan 30, 2008 9:10:45 GMT -5
"Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."
– Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Dread (1844)
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Post by yogibear on Jan 30, 2008 11:29:07 GMT -5
You are responsible to make your own happiness. The best thing I learned in life was to live in the moment and thoroughly enjoy it. Having children helps to really understand that sentiment.
Being so focused and worried about the outcome of this whole ALJ process can steal away our ability to live and enjoy the moment...and you can't get those moments back.
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Post by thedude on Jan 30, 2008 13:24:12 GMT -5
"Not on the rug, man"
- The Dude, The Big Lebowski (1998)
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Post by gromit on Feb 4, 2008 20:59:59 GMT -5
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