Thursday, February 28, 2013
— Thomas Merton
“The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.”
— Albert Einstein
“The true value of a human being can be found to the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Where there’s injustice, I always believe in fighting. The question is: do you fight to change things, or do you fight to punish? For myself I’ve found with all such sin as we should leave punishment to God.”
i guess one should start with today and then count ever minute until its better.
i guess one should start with today and then count ever minute until its better. It can't get any worse than it already is. and the price is
already paid. it matters. the memories, the talks, the time.
it was rare. thank you.
catching you
A love and hate complex
I'd love to push you down the hill
only to be the one catching you
down at the bottom
i thought you could make me happy, now i just want to cry...
i thought you could make me happy, now i just want to cry...
after all this time... why did i even think of giving you a chance?
without knowing
a cup of tea
a drop of tears
a blasting head
a fatigued look
please let me leave this
earth without knowing
i left you while i was still in
your mind
— Andrew Carnegie
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.”
That’s how it usually goes, right?
“You meet someone. You two get close. It’s all great for awhile.
Then someone stops trying. Talk less. Awkward conversations.
The drifting. No communication whatsoever. Memories start to
fade. Then that person you know becomes that person you KNEW.
That’s how it usually goes, right?
Sad isn’t it.
You keep on sticking to what you like.
That’s why you never notice those who need you.
Sometimes, you are dying for some stupid things
while somebody is already dead trying to wait for you.”
-Stephen King
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
Gateway of the Mind
In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God. They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with God by thought. An elderly man who claimed to have “nothing left to live for” was the only test subject to volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the scientists performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.
Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.
Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.
After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the scientists for sedatives, so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.
Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his non-functional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point, he yelled “No heaven, no forgiveness” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with God.
After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with a scientist for the first time in the study. He whispered “I have spoken with God, and he has abandoned us” and his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death.
— Ana Mardoll
“Margaret Atwood once wrote that “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them,” but it’s even more complicated than that. Women aren’t just afraid that they’ll be hurt; they’re afraid that they’ll be hurt and they’ll get blamed for it.”
The kids who changed their fate
The kids who changed their fate, followed their destiny, changed the way they see the world. They are the ones who stood up to fate, who challenged their destiny, and in return found a family, a home, and themselves.
Seconds
5 seconds of courage and your life can change at an instant.
Don't ever forget the power of a "Hello"
Still Care ... !
Once you have feelings
For someone
Those feelings will
Always be there.
You may not like them
Anymore,
But You'll Still Care ... !
Some ideas for those who are struggling...
- Talk to a friend on the telephone, or better yet, get together with a friend.
- Do exercise, mindfully. Moderation is key- don’t push yourself too far.
- Go for a long walk somewhere peaceful.
- Watch the clouds.
- Do something for someone else. It can be something big or small.
- Get out of the house. You don’t need to do anything, just get out.
- Take a nap. (Don’t go overboard though.)
- Plan a dream vacation.
- Eat something mindfully. Chocolate works! Again, moderation is key.
- Cook your favourite meal for yourself and for others.
- Watch a funny or scary movie.
- Go shopping.
- Get a haircut.
- Watch people and try to imagine what they’re thinking.
- Paint your nails.
- Take a bubble bath.
- Read your favourite book.
- Write a poem about how you are feeling.
- Write in your diary/journal.
- Clean your room, organize, and redecorate.
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