Tuesday 28 June 2011

140 Characters: Notes to Self

Private Notes To Self
  • Four things we all know but don't put into practice: 1) Smell deeply!, 2) Drink copiously!, 3) Perform brilliantly! & 4) Live intentionally!
    17 Nov 08
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  • 1) Give up Untidiness in All its Forms. 2) Focus Intention on your Purpose to be your Best. 3) Push to the limit using Creative Imagination.
    16 Mar 09
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  • 4) Think & Do what you are Passionate about and at every Moment BE Passionate about what you Think & Do. In other words...Follow your Heart!
    19 Mar 09
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  • Goals: 1) Wake Early. 2) Look inward for Value & Purpose of the present moment. 3) Vision for Now, Next & Pivot of Time when we must finish.
    21 Mar 09
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  • To open yourself to Goodness, Love & Light is easy. What is difficult is not to be distracted by desires, drama & doubt but follow the path.
    19 Apr 09
    » (credit: GlowWings on Yahoo Answers)
  • Remember always that you are under the authority of something greater. Under the guidance, tested by and on a mission for something greater.
  • Greater still than nations, armies, teams, bosses or even friends that try to supplant this allegiance and harness it for their own purpose.
  • It is a powerful tool. Let it be harnessed. But remember always the silent one that is greater still. Hush now & Listen... It is your Self!
    23 Apr 09
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  • Intense stillness. A state of increased processing power & reduced processing. Increase the processing power & reduce what needs processing!
    1 Jun 09
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  • When tomorrow comes, today is past. Fill yourself with silence and you shall find life & flourish like a tree that stands in a sunlit field.
    4 Jun 09
    » (credit: Proverbs of Amenemope)
  • This moment is all we have. It deserves our everything: our courage, our love, our respect. There is no time for petty fears & distractions.
    4 Jun 09
    » (credit: itsallinasong on Multiply)
  • What is the most nourishing thing for the soul? A single date shared between two lovers, with any of the three definitions of the word date.
    5 Jun 09
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  • Stop thinking! What does it really mean? It means walk on water...don't swim and you can't drown, don't even get your feet wet! Just Do It!!
    6 Jun 09
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  • The key is love. The goal is omnipresent. The ladder is imagination. To effect a change requires a commitment. List what you can start with.
    23 Jun 09
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  • Common Sense is what remains when all the knowledge from books of learning is forgotten. Wisdom is what remains when even that is forgotten.
    2 Aug 09
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  • Life's pleasures & life's joys are but a canvas pure fresh & peaceful for life's great deeds like a sleep that washes clean & reinvigorates.
    7 Aug 09
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  • How should one travel? How should one be? Just sense energy. You can't? Me neither. Just try. Pretend you can. And who knows maybe you will.
    11 Aug 09
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  • He is wise who looks after himself. She is loved who loves everything. Blessed are they who make all tasks one task & leave the rest to God.
    24 Aug 09
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  • Express Mind in Ideals, Ideals in Purpose, Purpose in Thought, Thought in Sincerity, Sincerity in Action, Action in Fun & Fun in Everything.
    27 Sep 09
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  • What is a diary? A dated index of things & thoughts that, when stuck, I can review the referenced memory & in remembering be refreshed anew.
    9 Oct 09
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  • Security in oneself is the foundation of inner power, recognizing accepting and knowing Self through experience. Insecurity breeds distrust.
    15 Oct 09
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  • If you live in a prison with the lock on the inside to keep criminals out, it's still a prison. Be brave! Find the key & Set your self free.
    30 Nov 09
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  • Do what is fun! Not what you're addicted to. Know the difference: desire acting with pure intent without wanting versus habits perpetuating.
    22 Apr 10
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  • Sometimes a gap opens, a primeval yearning at the pit of the stomach that seeks fulfillment. The gap must be filled with the will. Consigue!
    22 Apr 10
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  • What to do at moments when you are disheartened or ego-bruised? Dance skilfully! Loosen wilfully the desire for control. Revise your Vision!
    22 Apr 10
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  • Be a Servant of Love, a Master of Destiny, an Idolator of Good & an Idol to the World. But if any ask who is this One? Vanish! It is No-one.
    22 Apr 10
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  • 4 truths: Love, Art, Philosophy & Science. Accessed by: introversion/extroversion, intuition/sensing, thinking/feeling & perceiving/judging.
    23 Apr 10
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  • What raises Man above animal? What is his purpose? Aristotle said the Good. What is Good? It is realization of the infinite from the finite.
    23 Apr 10
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  • The moment of attention is a prayer of the spirit communing with the divine, but it's later in distraction that the divine manifests itself.
    18 May 10
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  • That which is limited in time or bounded in space cannot exist in isolation. Finitude must be understood within the context of the infinite.
    5 Jun 10
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  • No-one can take anything away from you. An antidote to the clinging mind. Do not lose yourself in the object, it's the subject that matters.
    6 Aug
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  • In between repression & acting out, there is something wise, profound & timeless. Transmutation of the emotions brings a great sense of joy.
    1 Sep
    » (credit: Pema Chödrön)
  • Each out-breath is accompanied by a movement of energy. Can you make it sink or rise? Direct intent on the out-breath! Feel it deep arising.
    7 Jan
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  • When there is no immediate external purpose, we may wonder what's the point? That's the moment for internal purpose, the moment of creation.
    19 Jan
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  • We take pride in our sense of struggle that justifies our right to succeed. But success comes when we stop struggling, have fun and just do.
    19 Jan
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6 comments:

  1. :) and share like the whole world is reading, but no-one knows it's you.

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  2. Ooooooh, GREAT NOTES ALL, dude!
    "4) Think & Do what you are Passionate about and at every Moment BE Passionate about what you Think & Do. In other words...Follow your Heart!
    19 Mar 09"... this, especially... *smile*
    Thanks for sharing. Have another peaceful and blissful day.

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  3. Thanks Jach! All the best to you too!

    Now if only I could follow my own advice...

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  4. I SO loved all of these! So thanks for making your private notes public hehe.

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  5. Welcome, Hille! They're private in the sense that their intended audience is me. And I wish I'd pay attention! :) I posted them originally on twitter to record stray thoughts from my mobile that I'd likely have otherwise lost on bits of paper.

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