light and darkness

“Do not love somebody who only sees the light in you- love somebody who isn’t afraid of the dark.”

— Gautama Buddha

“If you light a lamp for somebody, 

it will also brighten your path.”

If you want light

“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.”

— Unknown

“Sometimes you can’t explain what you see in a person. It’s just the way they take you to a place where no one else can.”

— I Wrote This For You

“Oh shut up! 

Every time it rains, it stops raining. 

Every time you hurt, you heal. 

After darkness, there is always light and 

you get reminded of this every morning but still 

you choose to believe that the night will last forever. 

Nothing lasts forever. 

Not the good or the bad. 

So you might as well smile while you’re here.”

— Born Free

“You don’t have to choose between your sexual side, your intellectual side, your emotional side, or your spiritual side…. Just combine them all into one powerful expression and shine that brilliant light all across this world and beyond.”

so be mine and your innocence i will consume

so be mine and your innocence i will consume

loving you isn't easy

Unknown

“Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.”

— Nelson Mandela

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” 

our own light goes out

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person...

Studying Tips For When A Test or Exam is Coming Up Soon

These are studying tips that might be useful for you for the last 2-3 days leading up to an exam or test.

1. When you have 2-3 days before an exam or test, be sure that you have already understood all your lecture notes and done all your readings and problem sets. The last 2-3 days should be about reviewing materials a second or third time and not spent learning materials that you should have already understood.

2. I don’t advise to ask last minute questions to your teachers or professors since you should have already done this earlier, but clearing up any last minute confusions can still prove helpful. Since you will be pressed for time, I’d also suggest asking questions that you think will be on the actual exam.

3. Since you will probably be anxious from the tests/exams coming up, ensuring that you have prepared well ahead is really helpful when it comes to minimizing exam anxiety.

4. Get enough sleep and avoid all-nighters. The last few days should be about maximizing your cognitive capacities so you can perform your best on the test day. Lack of sleep really impairs our ability to recall materials and causes a lot of stress.

5. In terms of notes and problem sets that you should be reviewing for a second or third time, ensure that you spend your last 2-3 days picking out the most important questions or sections of your notes to review. You’re pressed for time so you want to be as efficient as possible.

6. Reteach the materials to another person. Since reteaching the materials help you test how much you actually know, it’s a great chance to help you figure out area that you might need last minute revision on. Furthermore, reteaching the materials help you remember it better.

7. Come up with your own questions that you predict will be addressed on the exam. I often pay attention to what’s emphasize during lectures to help determine the sort of questions I would get asked. Then practice answering those questions with as much accuracy and details as possible  2-3 times over.

Here’s a video that I created a while back discussing a systematic approach to studying for psychology exams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muF7MPOfr6c&feature=plcp

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— bluebird (pg. 190), Ariel Gore

“Happiness is a kind of openness, we have learned. So choose the risky road of power and vulnerability. Be done with dull things. Take your life back. Free yourself from habits of anger and compliance—smoking self-destruction. Eyes wide open to the world as it is, we grieve. And in the midst of it all, we rejoice…We have been told that liberty and happiness are mutually exclusive. This notion we reject. We can write our own scripts, write our own stories. We can follow the threads of joy, too, like sparks flying from the campfire, see where they land. We can create a liberation psychology. So we open to love or work or art that feels expansive. There is no “happily ever after.” There is only meditation, action, change, friendship, idea, inspiration, creation. We spin this light out of darkness.”

Merry Christmas my friend :)

will you light up the dark and show us the road

will you light up the dark and show us the road

will you bring out the best and make us grow? 

will you look at her every day with the face she fell for?

will you hold her waist and say

No matter what happens this was one of the best trip i could have taken;

the good, bad and the whole package?

magic

— Albert Schweitzer

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

the way they fill with light

I fall in love with people’s 

passion. The way their eyes light up

 when they talk about the thing they

 love and the way they fill with 

light.

— Victor E. Frankl

“What is to give light must endure burning.”