Survival requires you to Adapt

 

Adapt, cope, remain flexible and foster a positive attitude amidst life's ups and downs.

Dr. Dean Ornish Tribute to Swami Satchidananda, July 2014

 

Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral Yoga,® is one of the most revered Yoga masters of our time. 

Regarded by many as an apostle of peace, Swami Satchidananda serves as an example of the teachings of Yoga and its goal of Self-realization. 

 His teachings included Hatha Yoga, Yoga philosophy, and interfaith ideas.

Dr. Dean Ornish Tribute to Swami Satchidananda, July 2014

Swami Satchidananda

In honor of the 100th birth anniversary of Sri Swami Satchidananda, Dr. Dean Ornish offers a tribute to his mentor and talks about his role in the development of his groundbreaking medical research and program.

https://youtu.be/vQWY136twrE

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 every 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆s 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 every 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆s 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏

Every pain gives you a lesson and all you need is to make sure that instead of thinking about the ache, you should start changing your perspective this time and think of the lessons that you have got from that failure so that you do not repeat the same mistakes again.

 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Galloping Horse by Xu Beihong

 

Galloping Horse by Xu Beihong

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

 

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

 “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

Progress has little to do with speed But much to do with direction. Set goals.

 

Set goals! 

Progress has little to do with speed

But much to do with direction.

‘I don’t think democracy exists in today’s politics’ - Ai Weiwei

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is a world-famous artist and activist.

https://youtu.be/KRrveCk8x9M

Krishnan speaks to him about China’s relationship with the West, his father’s exile and whether democracy really exists. His new exhibition, The Liberty of Doubt, is currently on display at Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge. Produced by: Freya Pickford

How changing your story can change your life | Lori Gottlieb

https://youtu.be/O_MQr4lHm0c

Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can keep you stuck instead of providing clarity. In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view.

PNTV: The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth (#235)

https://youtu.be/Pbb3ywtzn4g

Do you have Magical Thinking? - 4 Examples From Childhood Trauma Monthly Healing Community https://patrickteahantherapy.gumroad....

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Better or Worse

 

Day of the Dead -- Diego Rivera

 

Day of the Dead -- Diego Rivera

Instructions for living a life

 

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

Karl Marx born May 5,1818

 

Karl Marx FRSA[1]
Photograph of Marx taken by John Mayall in 1875
Born	Karl Heinrich Marx 5 May 1818 Trier, Prussia, German Confederation
Died	14 March 1883 (aged 64) London, England
Burial place	17 March 1883, Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London
Nationality	Prussian (1818–1845) Stateless (after 1845)
Education	University of Bonn University of Berlin University of Jena (PhD, 1841)[2]
Political party	Communist Correspondence Committee (until 1847) Communist League (1847–1852) International Workingmen's Association (1864–1872)
Spouse(s)	Jenny von Westphalen ​ ​ (m. 1843; died 1881)​
Children	7, including Jenny, Laura and Eleanor
Parents	Heinrich Marx (father) Henriette Pressburg (mother)
Relatives	Louise Juta (sister) Jean Longuet (grandson)
Philosophy career
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Marxism
Thesis	Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie (The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature) (1841)
Doctoral advisor	Bruno Bauer
Main interests	Philosophy economics history politics
Notable ideas	Marxist terminology, value form, contributions to dialectics and the marxian critique of political economy, class conflict, alienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history
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Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

PHILOSOPHY DEFINED

 

"Philosophy is indeed just the doctrine that is meant to liberate man from an infinite number of finite purposes and goals, and to make him indifferent to them such that it is indeed all the same to him whether such things are or not."

G. W. F. Hegel

"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living." 

Thich Nhat Hanh

Vegan Ideas

 

“The highest virtue consists in the non-killing of animals” 

Swami Abhedanda, Hindu Philosopher

“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”

⁃Gandhi

“No animals need to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”

-Howard Lyman

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

-Leo Tolstoy, Author

“You have just dined. And however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals”

⁃Albert Einstein

“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul”

-Pythagoras

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight”

-Albert Schweitzer

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”

-Cesar Chavez

“[Going Vegan] is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”

-Gary Francione

Lies

 

Sculptor Christophe Charbonnel

 

"A lie always writhes like a snake, which is never straight, whether it crawls or lies at rest; only when it is dead, it is straight and does not pretend."

- Martin Luther (1483 -1546) — German priest, theologian, writer and hymn writer.