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January 22, 2007

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently
is the last product of civilization,
and at present very few people
have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

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Surest way to corruption

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Ask yourself 'What do I need?' Then repeat to yourself what you found. TWIST Comment: We've all come to live life without ever knowing or being told what our purpose of life is. There are several theories and literatures that try to explain this. Some of them are ever more convincing that the others. My view of this is very simple. If God appears in front of you tomorrow (I bet he will, but most certainly we will not recognize God), and asks, 'what do you need?'. Will we ever have an answer? Let it not wait till tomorrow. Instead, start asking yourself now. It might take a few minutes or a few hours or even days if you are really serious about answering it. Assuming you come up with a few needs, think how far reaching it can be into your life to achieve those. If it's something you can achieve in 3, 5 or 10 years, then you'll have to do this exercise frequently. A better idea would be to think of something that you'll need for the rest of your life. If ...

Zest

Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate. Osho

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