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"The mental pathways are far more important than the ashphalt ones."
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| Below is simply a collection of thoughts that have arisen in me during some time or at some place. They usually last for about 3 or 4 seconds, or much longer, depending on the topic and how much it matters to me. Some of them have lingered in me for a long time, and others have been just passing roadsigns on my way to some other thought or conclusion. However, as much as they are brief, imaginary ideas, they are motifs that make up the fabric of me. |
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| EXPLORING |
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| I always wanted to travel. I always wanted to explore the world... to breathe the air in another place, near a beautiful lake on a pristine morning. I always wanted to know how it felt to embark on a journey, a journey to the unknown, a journey inside, a journey to the Heart of Darkness. |
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What a unique and potent force it is for the mind to think, to wander, to imagine. We can live on our mind's thoughts, and we can die on them just as simply. Shakespeare's Hamlet once said that, "Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." How true. |
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I'm glad to be alive.
There's a lot to be said for living. Beyond the basic trivialities, the numbing details, and the daily triathlon, there's that time in a day, or a week, or a year, that for once, for just one time, we can sit back and say, "Hey, life's good."
Phil
- 10/16/2000
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There is nothing more important to a young person than a sense of self-value.
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WHAT IS REAL ? HOW DO YOU DEFINE REAL ?
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If you're talking about what we can feel or touch, then "real" is simply the brain's perception of electronic senses.
- Morpheus, "The Matrix" |
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"Most Men Live Their Lives In Quiet Desperation."
- Henry David Thoreau |
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Life's changing.
It took me some time to realize things about my life... and what I have to do to fix what is 'broke'. I'm in University now... and that in itself is a step beyond anything else I have done before. I have never been given such freedom, such independence ... such a long leash. In this situation, professors don't notice your absence, TAs rarely care if you submit the assignment asked, at all, and most of all - homework is your job - no one else's. It seems so obvious, and so easy to understand, but sometimes I think we all may have become accustomed to teachers handing out homework, making us submit things in time... and perhaps in the rush and panic of it all, forgetten... that learning is meant to be enjoyable, to be enlightening, to be different, to be new... and we forget that it is our responsibility to make it so...
I am guilty of that. And I am guilty of failing to take charge of a command post that has been awarded to me ever since being accepted to UBC.
I don't think I exaggerate nor patronize myself when I say... It's time for change.
12/20/00 |
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"DE-CRYPTING" THE OTHER SEX |
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Understanding Women will always be one of man's great challenges. Most find it troubling and belabour the fact that women's emotions are a cloud of mysticality, a whirlwind of chaos. As a male, I would have to say that yes, sometimes, that quite definitely appears to be a case. "What is she thinking?!" - typically the phrase that echoes in a guy's mind at any given moment whether in the presence of the woman or not. To the woman reading this: we are always trying to figure you guys out. And I'm sure the same can be said for us. In fact, in defense of the woman, men are sometimes dog-like in their mind-numbing simplicity and other times as hard-headed and insensitive as a brick. I suppose the challenge is in finding the balance.
9/23/01 |
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These are times of struggle. These are times of war. These are times of betterment.
Don't ever estimate the power of a loved one.
Don't lose hope when you're right there.
"Forget the nonsense of yesterday." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
11/27/01 |
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Out of clutter / Find Simplicity.
From Discord / Find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty / lies...Opportunity.
- Albert Einstein, "The Three Rules of Work" |
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