Freedom from the known by Krishnamurti. Quotes

 - In a state of mind in which all violence has come to an end there is a joy.

- I don't want to have a breath of hate, jealousy, anxiety or fear in me. I want to live completely at peace. Which doesn't mean that I want to die. I want to live on this marvellous earth, so full, so rich, so beautiful. I want to look at the trees, flowers, rivers, meadows, women, boys and girls, and at the same time live completely at peace with myself and with the world. What can I do?

-Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.

-When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

-So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Krishnamurity to himself. Quotes

 -Where there is division, there must be conflict.

-A High School is a place for learning the art of living. This art is the greatest. 

-Children should also be taught the great dignity of death. 

-What you are now is what you will be in the coming days.

-What he is now, will be his future. 

-Austerity is far deeper than owning a few things. 

-The understanding of the nature of what you are, without any distortions, without any bias, without any reactions to what you discover you are, is the beginning of austerity. 

-Meditation must happen without your volition.

-Only fools advice.

-Death is not some horrific thing, something to be avoided, something to be postponed, but rather something to be day in and day out. And out of that, comes and extraordinary sense of immensity. 

Michael Kiwanuka - Solid Ground (Lyrics)

Voyage, voyage (Lyrics in English)

 VOYAGE, VOYAGE by Desireless.

Above the ancient volcanoes

Slide your wings under the carpet of the wind2

Travel, travel, eternally

Of clouds in swamps

Of wind in Spain in the rain from Ecuador

Travel, travel, fly to the highest heights

Above the capitals, fatal ideas

Look at the ocean

 

Travel, travel, further than the night and the day

Travel, in spaces unheard of by love

Travel, travel, on the sacred waters of an Indian river

Travel, and never come back

 

On the Ganges or the Amazon

With people of all races

Travel, travel, throughout the land

On the dunes of the Sahara

From Fiji to Fujiyama

Travel, travel, don't you stop

Above Barbal, with hearts bombarded

Look at the ocean

 

Travel, travel, further than the night and the day

Travel, in spaces unheard of by love

Travel, travel, on the sacred waters of an Indian river

Travel, and never come back

 

Above the capitals, the fatal ideas

Look at the ocean

 

Travel, travel, further than the night and the day

Travel, in spaces unheard of by love

Travel, travel, on the sacred waters of an Indian river

Travel, travel

Juramento Hipocrático

 JURAMENTO HIPOCRÁTICO

Conocida como "Declaración de Ginebra" fue adoptada por la Asociación Médica Mundial (AMM) en 1948 y ha sido revisada y enmendada en diferentes ocasiones (1968, 1983, 1994, 2005, 2006 y 2017). Este es el texto aprobado en octubre de 2017, en Chicago.

COMO MIEMBRO DE LA PROFESIÓN MÉDICA, PROMETO SOLEMNEMENTE:

DEDICAR mi vida al servicio de la humanidad;

VELAR ante todo por la salud y el bienestar de mis pacientes;

RESPETAR la autonomía y la dignidad de mis pacientes;

VELAR con el máximo respeto por la vida humana;

NO PERMITIR que consideraciones de edad, enfermedad o incapacidad, credo, origen étnico, sexo, nacionalidad, afiliación política, raza, orientación sexual, clase social o cualquier otro factor se interpongan entre mis deberes y mis pacientes;

GUARDAR Y RESPETAR los secretos que se me hayan confiado, incluso después del fallecimiento de mis pacientes;

EJERCER mi profesión con conciencia y dignidad, conforme a la buena práctica médica;

PROMOVER el honor y las nobles tradiciones de la profesión médica;

OTORGAR a mis maestros, colegas y estudiantes el respeto y la gratitud que merecen;

COMPARTIR mis conocimientos médicos en beneficio del paciente y del avance de la salud;

CUIDAR de mi propia salud, bienestar y capacidades para prestar una atención médica del más alto nivel;

NO EMPLEAR mis conocimientos médicos para violar los derechos humanos y las libertades ciudadanas, ni siquiera bajo amenaza;

HAGO ESTA PROMESA solemne y libremente, empeñando mi palabra de honor.

 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes VII

 -Tenderness and sadness, as well as gentleness, actually produce a sense of interest.

-You are so vulnerable that you cannot help being touched by your world. That is a sort of saving grace, or safety precaution, so that the warrior never goes astray and never grows a thick skin. 

-Every minute of every hour is a new chapter, a new page. 

-If you look back and trace back through your life, who your are, what you are, and why you are in this world, if you look through that step by step, you won't find any fundamental problems. 

-Not knowing the nature of fear, of course you cannot go beyond it. 

-The situations of fear that exist in our lives provide us with stepping stones to step over our fear. 

-On the other side of cowardice is bravery. 

-Tenderness contains an element of sadness. 

-In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart. 

-If a person does not feel alone and sad, he cannot be a warrior at all. 

-The warrior is sensitive to every aspect of phenomena -sight, smell, sound, feelings. He appreciates everything that goes on in this world as an artist does. His experience is full and extremely vivid. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes VI

-When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. 

-There is no problem with cleaning things up, if we realize that we are just returning them to their natural, original state. 

-In working with ourselves, cleaning up begins by telling the truth. 

-When we look back to the cocoon and see the suffering that takes place in the world of the coward, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. 

-Propagating health to our world becomes a basic discipline of warriorship. 

-The warrior feels that the world is naturally full of interest: the visual world, the emotional world, whatever world he might have. So interest or inquisitiveness manifests as raw delight, delight together with rawness or tenderness. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes V

 -Basic goodness is always connected with gentleness.

-Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself, that you have experienced mind and body being synchronized together. 

-Synchronizing mind and body has two stages which could call looking and seeing.

-Sometimes you want to close your eyes. You don't want to look anymore. But the point is to look properly. See the colors: white, black, blue, yellow, red, green, purple. Look. This is your world! You can't not look. 

-Look at the greatness of the whole thing! Look! Don't hesitate! Look! Open your eyes! Don't blink and look, look, look further.

-The more you look, the more inquisitive you are, the more you are bound to see. You have nothing to lose. You have nothing to fight against. 

-Synchronizing mind and body is also connected with developing fearlessness and brings the dawn of the Great Eastern Sun. 

-Whatever you do, death occurs. But if you have lived with a sense of reality and with gratitude towards life, then you leave the dignity of your life behind you, so that your relatives, your friends, and your children can appreciate who you were. 

-The vision of the Great Eastern Sun is based on celebrating life, appreciating our world. Because we appreciate our world, we don't make a mess in it. We take care of our bodies, we take care of our minds, and we take care of our world. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes IV

 -The genuine heart of sadness comes from feeling that your nonexistent heart is full. You would like to spill your heart's blood, give your heart to others. For the warrior, this experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. 

-Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. 

-We have to realize our fear and reconcile ourselves with fear. We should look at how we move, how we talk, how we conduct ourselves, how we chew our nails, how we sometimes put our hands in our pockets uselessly. 

-Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. 

-When you begin to feel comfortable being a gentle and decent person, you reindeer horns no longer have little hairs growing on them, they are becoming real horns. Fear evolves into fearlessness naturally, very simply and quite straightforwardly. 

-The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that the warrior can be very brave as well. Without that heartfelt sadness, bravery is brittle. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes III

 -In your daily life, you should also be aware of your posture, your head and shoulders, how you walk, and how you look at people. Even when you are not meditating, you can maintain a dignified state of existence. 

-From being open and honest with ourselves, we can also learn to be open with others. 

-We should appreciate what we have. 

-The point of warriorship is to work personally with your situation now, as it is. 

-We should feel that it is wonderful to be in this world. 

-When you slouch, you are trying to hide your heart, trying to protect it by slumping over. But when you sit upright but relaxed in the posture of meditation, your heart is naked. Your entire being is exposed, to yourself, first of all, but to others as well. 

-If you search for awakened heart, if you put your hand through your rib cage and feel for it, there is nothing there except for tenderness. You feel sore and soft, and if you open your eyes to the rest of the world, you feel tremendous sadness. This kind of sadness doesn't come from being mistreated. You don't feel sad because someone has insulted you or because you feel impoverished. Rather, this experience of sadness is unconditioned. It occurs because your heart is completely exposed. There is no skin or tissue covering it; it is pure raw meat. Even if a tiny mosquito lands on it, you feel so touched. Your experience is raw and tender and so personal. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes II

 -Every human being has a basic nature of goodness which is undiluted and unconfused.

-When we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us. 

-We can actually cure ourselves of depression if we recognize that the world we have is good.

-The essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. 

-By serving this world, we can save it. 

-We have to accept personal responsibility for uplifting our lives. 

-In the Shambhala tradition, the discipline for developing both gentleness towards ourselves and appreciation of our world is the sitting practice of meditation. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes

-There is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom doesn't belong to any one culture or religion. It is a tradition of human warriorship that has existed throughout history.

-Among the Tibetan people, there is a popular belief that the kingdom of Shambhala can still be found, hidden in a remote valley somewhere in the Himalayas.

-Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery or the tradition of fearlessness. 

-Shambhala vision teaches that, in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time. 

-When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish.

-Everyone has a responsibility to help the world. 

-The premise of Shambhala vision is that, in order to establish an enlightened society for others, we need to discover what inherently we have to offer the world. 

God, I love you. I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. Jack Kerouac.

La Quinta Columna. Program 260. Fragmento de Carlos Castaneda.

 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1305796454

Habla David Parcerisa, leyendo unos fragmentos de la obra El Lado activo del infinito de Carlos Castañeda.

David Parcerisa sobre los ovnis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TyhvSJtCU

El lado activo del infinito de Carlos Castañeda. Frases II

 -Si es cierto que los predadores nos comen, ¿cómo lo hacen?

Me explicó que los chamanes ven a los niños humanos como extrañas bolas luminosas de energía, cubiertas de arriba a abajo con una capa brillante, algo así como una cobertura plástica que se ajusta de forma ceñida sobre su capullo de energía. Dijo que esa capa brillante de conciencia era lo que los predadores consumían, y que cuando un ser humano llegaba a ser adulto, todo lo que quedaba de esa capa brillante de conciencia era una angosta franja que se elevaba desde el suelo hasta por encima de los dedos de los pies. Esa franja permitía al ser humano continuar vivo, pero sólo apenas. 

Oí a don Juan Matus explicando que, hasta donde él sabía, la humanidad era la única especie que tenía la capa brillante de conciencia por fuera del capullo luminoso. Por lo tanto, se volvió presa fácil para una conciencia de distinto orden, tal como la pesada conciecia del predador. 

Luego hizo el comentario más injuriante que había pronunciado hasta el momento. Dijo que esta angosta franja de conciencia era el epicentro donde el ser humano estaba atrapado sin remedio. Aprovechándose del único punto de conciencia que nos queda, los predadores crean llamaradas de conciencia que proceden a consumir de manera despiadada y predatorial. Nos otorgan problemas banales que fuerzan a esas llamaradas de conciencia a crecer, y de esa manera nos mantienen vivos para alimentarse con la llamarada energética de nuestras pseudo-preocupaciones. 

El lado activo del infinito de Carlos Castañeda. Frases.

 -¿Qué descubrieron, Don Juan?, pregunté.

-Descubrieron que tenemos un compañero de por vida, dijo de la manera más clara que pudo. Tenemos un predador que vino de las profundidades del cosmos y tomó control de nuestras vidas. Los seres humanos son sus prisioneros. El predador es nuestro amo y señor. Nos ha vuelto dóciles, indefensos. Si queremos protestar, suprime nuestras protestas. Si queremos actuar independientemente, nos ordena que no lo hagamos.

-Hay una negrura que nos rodea. Dijo Don Juan, pero si miras por el rabillo del ojo, verás todavía las fugaces sombras saltando a tu alrededor.

-Pero, ¿por qué este predador ha tomado posesión de la manera que usted describe? Pregunté. Debe de haber una explicación lógica. 

-Hay una explicación, replicó Don Juan, y es la explicación más simple del mundo. Tomaron posesión porque para ellos somos comida, y nos exprimen sin compasión porque para ellos somos su sustento. Así como nosotros criamos gallinas en gallineros, así también ellos nos crían en humaneros. Por lo tanto, siempre tienen comida a su alcance. 

-Los chamanes creen que los predadores nos han dado nuestro sistema de creencias, nuestras ideas acerca del bien y del mal, nuestras costumbres sociales. Ellos son los que establecieron nuestras esperanzas y expectativas, nuestros sueños de triunfo y fracaso. Nos otorgaron la codicia, la mezquindad y la cobardía. Es el predador el que nos hace complacientes, rutinarios y egomaniacos. 

-¿Pero de qué manera pueden hacer esto, don Juan? ¿Susurran todo esto en nuestros oídos mientras dormimos? 

-No, no lo hacen de esa manera. Para mantenernos obedientes y dóciles y débiles, los predadores se involucraron en una maniobra horrible. ¡Nos dieron su mente! Los predadores nos dieron su mente que se vuelve nuestra mente. La mente del predador es barroca, contradictoria, mórbida, llena de miedo a ser descubierta en cualquier momento. 

A small treatise of the great virtues. By Andre Comte-Sponville. Quotes

 -Virtue isn't entertainment and has no use for applause. 

-Politeness is the origin of the virtues; fidelity their principle; prudence their precondition.

-You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the person using it to assert his strength. 

-Love that takes is impure; loves that gives or contemplates is pure. 

-Gratitude rejoices in what has taken place or in what is. 

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” Jack London

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes V

-From the 16th century humanity has entered on a vast unifying process, which in our days has reached its further limits.  

-The health of democracies, of whatever type and range, depends on a technical detail, electoral procedure. All the rest is secondary.

-The world today is suffering from a grave demoralization which among other symptoms, manifests itself by an extraordinary rebellion of the masses, and has its origin in the demoralization of Europe. 

-Europe has been left without a moral code. There is the aspiration to live without conforming to any moral code. 

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes IV

 -Every man who adopts a serious attitude before his own existence and makes himself fully responsible for it will feel a certain kind of insecurity which urges him to keep ever on the alert. 

-We are what out worlds invites us to be, and the basic features of our soul are impressed upon it by the form of its surroundings as in a mold. 

-Our life is no other than our relations with the world around. 

-Contrary to what it is usually thought. it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude.

-As one advances in life, one realizes more and more that the majority of men and women are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. For that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving. 

-European civilization has brought about the rebellion of the masses.

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes III

 -The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.

-The mass crashes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. 

-Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. 

-We are living under the brutal empire of the masses. 

-The element of terror in the destiny of our time is furnished by the overwhelming and violent moral upheaval of the masses, imposing, invincible, and treacherous, as is destiny in every case. 

-The masses are today exercising functions in social life which coincide with those which hitherto seemed reserved to minorities. 

-These masses have at the same time shown themselves indocile to the minorities: they do not obey them, follow them, or respect them; on the contrary, they push them aside and supplant them. 

 

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes II

 -To form a minority, of whatever kind, it is necessary beforehand that each member separate himself from the multitude for special, relatively personal, reasons.

-The mass is all that which sets no value on itself, good or ill, based on specific grounds, but which feels itself 'just like everybody', and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else. 

-For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves. 

-The division of society into masses and select minorities is, then, not a division into social classes, but into classes of men.

-A characteristic of our times is the predominance, even in groups traditionally selective, of the mass and the vulgar. 

The revolt of the masses (1930) by Ortega y Gasset. Quotes

 -Public life is not solely political, but equally, and even primarily, intellectual, moral, economic, religious; it comprises all our collective habits, including our fashions both of dress and of amusement. 

-To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

-Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.

-This faculty of wonder is the one which leads the intellectual man through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the visionary.

-Society is always a dynamic unity of two component factors: minorities and masses.

-The minorities are the individuals or groups of individuals which are specially qualified. The mass is the average man. 

-The normal formation of a multitude implies the coincidence of desires, ideas, ways of life, in the individuals who constitute it. 

FDA Covid 19 vaccines side effects in SLIDE 17

 https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download

Heartfulness at the center of it all

 Your heart... your beautiful heart... are you listening to it? Listen... it is whispering... calmly and patiently... Put your heart at the core of everything... Your mind will get in balance with that precious jewel in connection to your soul...

Breath with your heart... Speak with your heart... Look with your heart... Dream with your heart... Hope with you heart... Wait with your heart... 

When we yield to the kingdom of our heart, magic will overtake the dance in our souls...

Feel it!!!!! Feel it with your whole heart!!! Once you let yourself be embarked on that journey, there is no turning back... you are on your road to your eternity!

Lavinia

Derwin Gray - Texas Coaches Leadership Summit 2017

Derwin Gray | Mens Summit 2017 | Conference. On why, middle school inspiring years, leadership vision, etc

Part of Scariolo address to players before World Basbet SemiFinal (2019)

 "Cometer errores y no perder la confianza, sobre todo. No hay lugar para la frustración tras los errores. No sólo los tuyos, sino también los de los compañeros. Hoy no cuenta nada. Aunque en un momento dado, uno te puede joder, no importa. Hay que seguir, hay que arreglarlo, hay que aconsejarlo, hay que animarlo. ¿Vale? En un partido donde habrá dificultades, donde habrá un equipo duro delante, donde habrá errores, tuyos y de tus compañeros, y lo único que cuenta es que entremos en la zona donde sabemos competir mejor que cualquiera y donde tenemos la cabeza bien puesta para ganar el partido mejor que cualquiera. Eso es lo que hay que hacer, ¿vale?. 

(Todo el grupo). ¡Venga! ¡Venga! ¡Venga! 

                          Hoy es el día. Rebote, defensa. Nos ayudamos. ¡Vamos!

Marc Gasol en La Familia. Los cambios. Introducción al Capítulo 5.

 "En la vida siempre hay cambios. Cambias de coche, cambias de casa, cambias de país. Cambias de forma de ver la vida. El tiempo pasa. En el deporte también hay cambios. Unos van y otros vienen. No es negativo. En realidad, es un reto. Resulta interesante demostrar de lo que eres realmente capaz. Siempre hay cambios, es verdad. Aunque cuando la esencia es perfecta, el cambio perfecto es modificar todo sin que cambie nada."

Marc Gasol. La Familia. Intro del Capítulo V. 

Raúl López y Ricky Rubio. Acerca de la confianza en el tiro.

Raúl. "Mi colaboración con Ricky surge de un mensaje que me mando él en su día. Bueno, para ver si podíamos trabajar juntos en verano. 

Yo creo que, de lo que, en este caso, yo puedo estar un poco más satisfecho, es de hacerle ver, que él se diera cuenta, de que podía llegar a este nivel. Que, en ese caso, él entendiera, que era mucho mejor jugador de lo que él creía que era en ese momento. 

Donde entrenábamos, había un sitio en la pista que ponía: Next, MVP. Y no era el sitio más normal para tirar en esa pista, pero me gustaba que tirara desde ahí para tener la sensación de que él pudiese conectar algo ahí. 

Ricky. "Tu puedes seguir siendo la misma persona humilde, pero creyéndote todo de lo que eres capaz. Y creo que fue un poco lo que Raúl abrió esa puerta. Y con él, con esa confianza, jugué todo el mundial. No es que mejore el tiro. Lo que mejoro es la confianza. Y eso, es algo que, en gran parte, siempre le estaré agradecido a Raúl. 

Pero de todos los entrenos, él último me quiso hacer una cosa que es: lee lo que pone. Pone: Next: MVP. Créetelo. Porque este año vas a ser el MVP. 

Palabras finales de Ricky Rubio en el documental La familia sobre la Seleccion Española de Baloncesto.

 "La vida es mucho más que sólo deporte. 

¡Uno, dos, tres, muro!

Esta historia puede inspirar a mucha gente a afrontar el día a día y los baches que hay en la vida. 

A veces nos preguntan en qué se basa el éxito de este grupo. Convencerse de que es posible es el primer paso para alcanzar lo que deseas. 

Hemos disfrutado como niños pequeños. Un grupo de deportistas convertidos en niños que juegan como si siguiesen siendo niños y quieren cumplir sus sueños de niños. 

Los éxitos son importantes pero lo interesante  es ir más allá. Demostrar una lección de vida. Es el paso que dan las leyendas. ¿Que si la familia es leyenda? No nos toda responder eso a nosotros. A nosotros nos toca seguir votando, seguir defendiendo, seguir anotando y seguir soñando. 

Ricky Rubio sobre la pérdida de su madre

 "Mi madre nunca más va a estar a mi lado. Lo que le pasó a Rudy y todo, nunca más estarán a su lado. Pero podemos aprender y ser como la memoria de la gente que estuvo y nos hizo ser lo que somos. 

A value and character educational model: Repercussions for students, teachers and families. Berges-Puyó, G. (2021)

 Berges Puyo, J. (2020). A Value and Character Educational Model: Repercussions for Students, Teachers, and Families. Journal of Culture and Values in Education, 4(1), 100-115. https://doi.org/10.46303/jcve.2020.7

La verdadera nobleza de Pedro Alfonso de Huesca. (1076)

 Un árabe dijo a su padre: Estoy asombrado, pues he leído que en tiempos pasados, la gente de espíritu y los sabios eran venerados, mientras que ahora, solo los aduladores son honrados. Entonces el padre: No te asombres, hijo mío, si los clérigos tienen veneración por los clérigos, los nobles por los nobles, la gente de espíritu por la gente de espíritu, los aduladores lo tengan por los aduladores. Y el hijo: He notado otra cosa : los clérigos no son honrados por su sabiduría; es porque se han convertido en aduladores y han recibido grandes honores. Entonces el padre le dijo: A eso tiende la estupidez de nuestra época. Entonces el hijo: Dame, padre muy querido, la verdadera definición de la nobleza. Y el padre: Es aquella que recuerda Aristóteles en la carta que escribió al rey Alejandro, quien le había preguntado a quién elegir entre los hombres para hacerlo su consejero, y él le le respondió así en una carta: Toma a alguno que está instruido en las siete artes liberales, que está práctico en las siete pericias, que se haya formado en las siete reglas de conducta: yo pienso que esa es la verdadera nobleza. Entonces el hijo: Esa nobleza no existe en nuestra época: toda la nobleza que veo es la del oro y de la plata, como dice el poeta: Aquellos desprovistos de nobleza se vanaglorian de su tesoro, y la pobreza humilla a la alta nobleza. Un poeta ha escrito sobre las desgracias del siglo que afectan a los nobles, y en las palabras propias de ellos he aquí estos versos: Dile a aquellos que nos menosprecian debido a las desgracias que nos afligen, que este siglo no ha afectado a nadie mas que a los nobles. No ves que el mar lleva en la superficie los desechos y la paja, mientras que las piedras preciosas caen al abismo? Y no ves que hay en el cielo estrellas de las que ignoramos el nombre? Y sin embargo ninguna de entre ellas experimenta un eclipse, con excepción del sol y de la luna? Y el padre agrega: Es a causa de la estupidez de la época que los hombres piensan que uno debe alabar solo las riquezas.

Candy Dulfer & David A. Stewart - Lily Was Here

ZHU - Good Life (Audio)

Amtrac - Once Is Enough

Kobe Bryant mentality

 https://youtu.be/fPZuxdvWHLs

Mamba mentality

1. Passion.

2. Obsession.

3. Relentlessness.

4. Resilience.

5. Fearlessness. 

Cantar de Mio Cid

 ¡Dioss qué buen vasallo si oviesse buen señor!”

Mercedes Sosa Sus Mejores Exitos - Mercedes Sosa 30 Grandes Éxitos

Some quotes.

 

 “WHEN YOU DO NOTHING, YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED AND POWERLESS. 

BUT WHEN YOU GET INVOLVED YOU FEEL THE SENSE OF HOPE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT

 THAT COMES FROM KNOWING YOU ARE WORKING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.” 

– MAYA ANGELOU

“PLANT SEEDS OF HAPPINESS, HOPE, SUCCESS, AND LOVE; 

IT WILL ALL COME BACK TO YOU IN ABUNDANCE. THIS IS THE LAW OF NATURE.” 

– STEVE MARABOLI

El gran error es adaptarse

 "El gran error es adaptarse. El matrimonio destruye el amor, la posesión mata el deseo, el conocimiento aniquila el placer; el hábito, la novedad; la destreza, la conciencia. Ser el eterno forastero, el eterno aprendiz: he ahí una fórmula para ser feliz".

Julio Ramón Ribeyro

5 Books to read

 

Number 1. “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy


Number 2. “Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins

Number 3: “MAX OUT” by Ed Mylett

Number 4: “Outwitting The Devil” by Napoleon Hill

Number 5. “Limitless” by Jim Kwik

Estabas muy cerca. Pedro Salinas.

 «Estabas muy cerca. Sólo

nos separaban diez ríos, 

tres idiomas, dos fronteras: 

cuatro días de ti a mí".

"Fábula y signo", Pedro Salinas

Sólo las personas que se atreven a ir demasiado lejos logran descubrir hasta dónde pueden llegar

Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (Official Video)

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VII

 -Habits+Deliberate practice = Mastery.

-Career Best Effort Program implemented by Pat Riley in the Lakers in the 80's. Stats divided by minutes played give you the coefficient of performance. 

-The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then to do them the same way every time. 

-Power of reflection and review. 

-Improvement is not just about learning habits, it is also about fine-tuning them. 

-You don't want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective. 

-Around September of each year I conduct an Integrity report to revisit my core values and reflect on my identity and how I can work toward being the type of person I wish to become. 

-Worrying too much about every daily choice is like looking at yourself in the mirror from an inch away. 

-Periodic reflection and review is like viewing yourself in the mirror from a conversational distance. You can see the important changes you should make without losing sight of the bigger picture. 

-Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you. 

-Everything is impermanent. 

-The holy grail of habit change is not a single one percent improvement, but a thousand of them. 

-Gradually, as you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life start to move. Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale. 

-Success is not a goal, it is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.

-The secret to getting results that last it to never stop making improvements. 

-Happiness is the absence of desire. 

-Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. 

-Being curious is better than being smart. 

-Emotions drive behavior. 

-Reward is on the other side of sacrifice. 

-Being poor is not having too little. It is wanting more. 

-If your wants outpace your likes, you'll always be unsatisfied. Your are perpetually putting more weight on the problem than the solution. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VI

 -People are borne with different abilities.

-Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity. 

-How do I figure out where the odds are in my favor? How do I identify the opportunities and habits that are right for me? The first place we will look for an answer is by understanding your personality. 

-When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. 

-What do the really successful people do that most don't? The ones who can handle the boredom of training every day. 

-It all comes down to passion.

-The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom.

-You have to fall in love with boredom

-Stepping up when it's annoying or painful or draining to do so, that's what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur. 

-When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes V

 -The secret is to always stay below the point where it feels like work. 

-The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. 

-When the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. 

-Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit. 

-Show up and add to the streak.

-The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. 

-This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast. 

-You don't realize how valuable it is to just show up on your bad days. Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.

-Never interrupt it unnecessarily. 

-Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. Simply doing something, ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really, is huge. Don't put up a zero. Don't let losses eat into your compounding. 

-It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it. Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but reaffirms your identity. 

-When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes IV

 -It is the anticipation of the reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action. 

-Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.

-Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together. 

-Humans everywhere pursue power, prestige and status. 

-Saving money is often associated with sacrifice. However, you can associate it with freedom rather than limitation if you realize one simple truth: living below your current means increases your future means. The money you save this month increases your purchasing power next month. 

-You can reframe 'I am nervous' to 'I am excited and I am getting an adrenaline rush to help me concentrate'. 

-If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.

-Habits form with frequency, not time.

-Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life. 

-Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible. 

-The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.

-The greater the friction, the lest likely the habit. 

-The point is to master the habit of showing up. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes III

 -Try, fail, learn, try differently. 

-We can't always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way. 

-You are much more than your conscious self. 

-We must begin the process of behavior change with awareness. 

-Many of our failures in performance are largely attributively to a lack of self-awareness. 

-Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be? 

-Hearing your bad habits spoken aloud makes the consequences seem more real. 

-A fresh start feels motivating. 

-No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior. 

-Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior. 

-Making a better decision is easy and natural when the cues for good habits are right in front of you. 

-Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world, and not merely the consumer of it. 

-Habits can be easier to change in a different environment. 

-Make the cues of your good habits obvious, and the cues of your bad habits invisible. 

Atomic habits my James Clear. Quotes II

 -Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results. 

-The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it. 

-True behavior change is identity change. 

-Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. 

-What is the type of person that could get the outcome I want? 

-The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. 

-You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. 

-Habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes.

 -I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen. 

-Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you are willing to stick with them for years. 

-Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish assume it is my error. 

-If you broke down anything you know about riding a bicycle, and then improve it by 1 per cent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together. 

-If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty seven times better by the time you're done. 

-Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. 

-You get what you repeat. 

-Understanding the details is crucial. 

-The score takes care of itself. 

Calendar Book #5: May. Atomic habits by James Clear

 

Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes II

-A quienes perdonéis los pecados, les serán perdonados; a quienes se los retengáis, les serán retenidos.
-Has creído porque has visto. Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto.
-Salí del Padre y vine al mundo; de nuevo dejo el mundo y vuelvo al Padre.
-Que todos sean una sola cosa.
-Yo en ellos y tú en mí, para que sean perfectos en la unidad.
-La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy.
-Amaos unos a otros.
-Creedlo al menos por las obras mismas.
-El que ama su vida la perderá; el que odia su vida en este mundo, la conservará para la vida eterna.

Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes.

-Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo que dio a su único hijo para que quien crea en él no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna. Pues Dios, no envió a su hijo al mundo para condenar al mundo, sino para que el mundo se salve por él.
-El que obra mal odio la luz y no va a la luz para que no se descubran sus obras. Pero el que practica la verdad va a la luz, para que se vean sus obras que están hechas como Dios quiere.
-El hombre no puede apropiarse de nada si Dios no se lo da.
-Ningún profeta es bien considerado en su propio pais.
-Si yo testificara de mí mismo, mi testimonio no sería verdadero.
-El espíritu es el que da la vida. La carne no sirve para nada.
-¿Cómo sabe tanto sin haber estudiado?
-No juzguéis por las apariencias.
-El que de vosotros no tenga pecado que tire la primera piedra.
-He venido a este mundo para que los que no ven vean, y los que ven se queden ciegos.
-Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis; pero si las hago, aunque no me creáis a mí, creed en las obras para que sepáis y reconozcáis que el Padre está en mí y yo en el Padre.
-Ahora estoy profundamente angustiado. ¿Y qué voy a decir? ¿Pediré al Padre que me libre de esta hora? No, pues para esto precisamente he llegado a esta hora.
-Si me amais, os alegraréis que me vaya al Padre, porque el Padre es mayor que yo.
-Amaos unos a otros como yo os he amado.
-El criado no es más que su amo.

Calendar Book #4 April: Gospel Saint John the Baptist.

Sirácida. Frases V

-Los pájaros se juntan con sus iguales.
-Muchos caen por la espada, pero muchos más por la lengua.
-Presta al prójimo en su necesidad y devuelve a tiempo lo prestado.
-Conténtate con lo poco o lo mucho.
-El que ama a su hijo no le escatimará los azotes.
-No hay felicidad superior al gozo del corazón.
-Más vale la muerte que vida amargada.
-La vida del hombre es el gozo del corazón, y su alegría alarga los días.
-Cuando ofrezcas algo, hazlo con cara de alegría.
-El hombre que ayuna por sus pecados y luego los vuelve a cometer, ¿quién escuchará su plegaría y qué provecho sacará de sus penitencias?
-Aconséjate de hombres piadosos.
-La sabiduría del sabio crece en las horas libres.
-Conserva los discursos de los hombres famosos y penetra en las sutilezas de las parábolas.
-Todas las obras del Señor son buenas, y Él a su tiempo, atiende a cada necesidad.
-Hombre que mira a mesa ajena con ansia, vive una vida que no debe tenerse como vida.
-Haced vuestra tarea antes del tiempo fijado y en su día Él os dará la recompensa.

Sirácida Frases IV

-Los hombres son todos polvo y ceniza.
-Cuando el hombre termina, entonces está comenzando. Cuando se detiene, queda desconcertado.
-Hijo, tus favores no los acompañes de reproches, ni tus obsequios de palabras amargas. ¿Es que el rocío no templa el hardor del sol?
-Acuérdate de los tiempos de penuria en los días de abundancia, de la pobreza y miseria en los días de riqueza.
-No te empobrezcas banqueteando con dinero prestado cuando nada queda en tu bolsa.
-El obrero bebedor nunca se hará rico.
-El hombre sabio callará hasta el momento oportuno.
-Hay éxitos que el hombre encuentra en el infortunio y hay hallazgos imprevistos que se truecan en daño.
-El duelo por un muerto dura siete días pero el del necio y el malvado todos los días de su vida.
-El maderamen bien ajustado de una edificación no es desencajado por un terremoto, así el corazón
resuelto tras madura reflexión no vacila en ningún momento.
-La rica experiencia es la corana del anciano.
-Dichoso el marido de una mujer buena.

Sirácida. Frases III

-No alabes a nadie porque el hombre será reconocido por su fin.
-¿Quién se compadecerá del encantador herido por la serpiente y del que anda con fieras?
-El rico comete injusticia y encima presume. El pobre sufre una injusticia y aún debe excusarse.
-Júntate con tus iguales.
-No te tomes la libertad de intimar con el rico, ni te fíes de su palabrería, porque con su verborrea te pondrá a prueba y entre sonrisas te irá sonsacando.
-¿Cómo se podrían juntar el lobo y el cordero? Sería igual que unir al justo con el injusto.
-La humildad es repulsiva para el orgulloso, y el pobre es repulsivo para el rico.
-Cuando el rico habla, todos callan y ensalzan hasta las nubes su buen criterio.
-El corazón del hombre se refleja en su cara.
-Hijo, recuerda que la muerte no tarda y que no te han dicho cuando vas a morir.
-Antes de morir, haz bien al amigo, según tus posibilidades.
-No te prives de un día feíz.
-Dichoso el hombre que busca la sabiduría y que discurre con inteligencia que
medita en su corazón sobre sus caminos.
-El Señor creó al hombre de la tierra y de nuevo le hará volver a ella. Le señaló un número preciso de días y tiempo fijo.

Sirácida. Frases II

-Hay amigos de ocasión que no te son fieles en el día de la tribulación.
-Un amigo fiel es escudo poderoso, y el que lo encuentra haya un tesoro.
-Honra a tu padre con todo tu corazón, y no olvides los dolores de tu madre. Acuérdate que fuieste engendrado por ellos. ¿Cómo podrás pagarles lo que hicieron por ti?
-En todas tus obras acuérdate del final, y no pecarás jamás.
-Si prestaste, dalo por perdido. No salgas fiador más allá de tus posibilidades.
-Aparta tus ojos de la mujer bonita, y no te fijes en belleza ajena.
-No te sientes jamás junto a mujer casada, ni te pongas con ella a la mesa a beber vino.
-No envidies la gloria del pecador.
-No tengas envidia del éxito de los malvados.
-Según el governante de la ciudad, asi sus subordinados, y según el que rige la ciudad, así sus habitantes.
-El principio de la soberbia es el pecado.
-El que es honrado en la pobreza, ¡cuánto más lo será en la riqueza!
-No alabes al hombre por su hermosura, y no desprecies a nadie por su aspecto.
-Bienes y males, vida y muerte, pobreza y riqueza, vienen del Señor.
-En el día de los bienes, se olvidan los males, y en el día de los males no se recuerdan los bienes.

Siracida. Frases.

-No te ensalces a ti mismo.
-Endereza tu corazón y mantente firme, en tiempo de infortunio, no te inquietes.
-Todo cuanto te sobrevenga, acéptalo y en los reveses de la prueba, sé paciente.
-El que honra al padre, repara su pecado.
-Hijo, ayuda a tu padre en su vejez, y no le des disgustos durante su vida.
 Si llega a perder la razón, sé indulgente con él, no le afrentes tú, que están en pleno vigor.
-Cuanto más grande seas,  más de has de abajar.
-La sabiduría desea un oído atento.
-Arranca al oprimido de mano del opresor, no te acobardes al hacer justicia.
-Hay una vergüenza que conduce al pecado y hay otra que es gloria y favor.
-No dejes de hablar cuando sea necesario.
-No te sometas al estúpido, ni guardes miramientos con el poderoso.
-No seas como león en tu casa, ni altanero con tus criados.
-Sé pronto para oír, y lento en tu respuesta.
-No te entregues a los caprichos de la pasión.
-Que sean muchos tus amigos, pero uno entre mil tu consejero.

Calendar Book #3 March Siracida Book from the Bible

Mhm Mhm (Extended)

Calendar Book #2 February: Parabolas en la Bibilia

1984 by George Orwell. Quotes II

-Were these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply because they were rich and you were poor?
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.

1984 by George Orwel. Quotes

-You had to live with the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.

All the Bright Places. Quotes.

-You know people call you "The Freak", right?
-Yeah. Sometimes I say and do things without thinking and... people don't like that. People like labels. The like putting you in a box. The want you to be who they want you to be.
-People don't like messy.
-Or different.

-Tell me about Eleonor.
-She was bossy... like you.
-I like her already.
-She hated reading... She only liked this Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. He said: "We do not remember days, we remember moments". Anytime I was having a bad day, she always said that. Like it was supposed to fix something...
-Did it?
-Yeah. It did.
-What else?
-She was my best friend.
-"Eleanor Markey: sister, best friend".  That's a pretty good epitaph. What would yours be?
-"Violet Markey: I was here".

-Then... without really knowing... I changed... I wasn't worried about what happened if I lived, I was worried about if I didn't... What I would miss... I worried about not remembering... Not remembering all of the moments... all of the places... and that's because of Finch... because he taught me to wander... He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world...  That even the ugliest of places can be beautiful as long as you take time to look... that it's ok to get lost, as long as you find your way back. But in learning all of that, I missed seeing something more important... seeing Finch... I missed that he was in pain... I missed that he was teaching me all along how to move on... Finch was a dreamer... he dreamt while he was awake... He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life... Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places... and that there are bright places... even in dark times... And that if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities...

Before I die I want to... | Candy Chang

PRIORITIES: Whatever You MUST, YOU WILL! - Must Listen Motivational Speech!

When Death comes by Mary Oliver

When Death Comes

When death comes 
like the hungry bear in autumn; 
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; 
when death comes 
like the measle-pox;

when death comes 
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: 
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything 
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, 
and I look upon time as no more than an idea, 
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common 
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, 
tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something 
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life 
I was a bride married to amazement. 
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder 
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, 
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

I Didn't Come This Far To Only Come This Far (Motivational Video)

The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes II

-LeBron is bigger than me in height and width, but I enjoyed hitting, and getting hit, a lot more than him. That impacted our head-to-head matchups.
-If you want to win a championship, you, the star, have to take on the responsibility of guarding the other team’s best player. I always prided myself on guarding the best.
-In turn, I loved showing him (Westbrook) my full arsenal of weapons. One of them was mental: knowing my opponent. I knew he was competitive, as much then as he is now, so I knew he would bite at the opportunity to block my shot. So I’d throw him a hard pump fake and either get fouled or go right by him.
-Pau Gasol was like a brother to me. Over the course of my career, I suited up with dozens upon dozens of players. Among all of them, it’s safe to say that Pau was my favorite teammate ever.
-What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.
-The game provided me with every opportunity that I ever imagined it would, and along the way I learned a innumerable amount. I’m not just speaking about on the court, either. Without hoops, I would not understand how to create or write, I would not understand human nature, nor would I know how to lead.

The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes

-From day one, I wanted to dominate. My mindset was: I’m going to figure you out. Whether it was AI, Tracy, Vince—or, if I were coming up today, LeBron, Russ, Steph—my goal was to figure you out. And to do that, to figure those puzzles out, I was willing to do way more than
anyone else.
-I always felt like if I started my day early, I could train more each day. If I started at 11, I’d get in a few hours, rest for four hours, and then get back to the gym around 5 to 7. But if I started at 5 AM and went until 7, I could go again from 11 until 2 and 6 until 8. By starting earlier, I set myself up for an extra workout each day. Over the course of a summer, that’s a lot of extra hours in the gym.
-I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.
-From a young age—a very young age—I devoured film and watched everything I could get my hands on. It was always fun to me. Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.
-If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
-If you want to be a great basketball player, you have to be in great shape. Everyone talks about the fancy workouts and training sessions, but I also worked relentlessly to make sure that my legs and lungs were always at peak performance.
-Pain in one area of your body often stems from an imbalance somewhere else. With that in mind, it’s important to treat the root cause and not the effect.
-I always made sure my ankles were activated and moving. If your ankles are stiff, that can create problems in the knees, hips, back, and all the way up. So, I’d spend a lot of time before games working on my ankles—the core of the problem—so that I wouldn’t exacerbate the symptoms.
-I would begin stretching a couple of hours before games. Then, as the game got closer and closer, I would start doing more active, more range-of-motion things to get ready.

Calendar Books 2020. #1 January: The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant

2019 reading list

1. January: Do as I say not as I do by Peter Schweizer
2. February: Compass, a handbook on parent leadership by J. Stenson. 
3. March: With love and prayers by F. Jarvis
4. April: Win forever by Pete Carroll.
5. May: Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. June: Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen.
7. July: The spiritual child by Lisa Miller. 
8. August: Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown. 
9. September: Life after life by R. Moody. 
10. October: Siddhartha by H. Hesse.
11. November: Death by E. Kubller Ross
12. December: 1984 by George Orwell. 

The Mamba Mentality

Five Pillars Of The Mamba Mentality:

1. Be Passionate. 
2. Be Obsessive. 
3. Be Relentless
4. Be Resilient. 
5. Be Fearless.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes X

-Humankind will survive only through the commitment and involvement of individuals in the own and others' growth and development as human beings.
-Through commitment to personal growth individual human beings will also make their contribution to the growth and development of the whole species to become all that humankind can and is meant to be.
-You must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you. You can be yourself only if you are no one else. You must give up their approval, whoever they are, and look to yourself for evaluation of success and failure, in terms of your own level of aspiration that is consistent with your values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult.
-When we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.
-There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IX

-How we interact with one another and how we experience ourselves are more important for dying persons than the content of their religious myths or their articulated philosophy of life.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who  you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VIII

-Through reaching out and committing yourself to dialogue with fellow human beings, you can begin to transcend your individual existence, becoming at one with yourself and others. And through a life time of such commitment, you can face your final end with peace and joy, knowing that you have lived your life well.
-We must learn to die in order that we may learn to live.
-In order to grow, you must continuously die and be reborn.
-The issue is awareness, of living in the present. Whatever our present existence consists of, if we are at one with it, we are healthy.
-Death separates us from all that we hold dear, including our very selves. It is the ultimate of separations. And unlike any other separations, we have little choice as to whether or not the separation will occur. However, what it is in our control is the quality of the separation experience.
-I have lived more in the past three months than I have during my whole life. I wish I knew forty years ago what I know now about living.
-Acceptance is the beginning of growth.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VII

-Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life.
-If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short  and that everything we do counts. When it is the evening of our life we will hopefully have a chance to look back and say: it was worthwhile because I have really lived.
-It is not the quantity of life but the quality that counts.
-I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of hurting my family and my boyfriend. I don't want them to suffer.
-This can't go on. I want to die. I am so sorry to say that, Daddy, and I love you so much.
-And before my very eyes I saw that dying is a birth. It is terribly, terribly hard. It may be the hardest thing a person ever does. But one does emerge from the dark into the light.
-Where there is suffering the gift of courage is given.
-Death is another beginning, not an end.
-If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VI

 -Death follows no predictable timetable, but chooses its own time and place.
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes V

-Emotional acceptance takes time and work and pain and hurt.
-The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation,  a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people just don't happen.
-What a blessing to take the time to integrate loss into our lives so that when a love is lost, our capacity to love is not lost also. From our grief can come growth.

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IV

-The conquest of death is believed to be along and arduous task, involving the cultivation of a disciplined mind and body throughout many terms of existence.
-To find release to must begin regard life and death as identical.
-As a man desires, he wills. As he wills, he acts. As he acts, so does he become.
-It is no really the dying that's so hard; dying takes no skill and no understanding. It can be done by anyone. What is hard is living, living until you die.
-Learning to reinvest yourself in living when you have lost someone you love is very difficult, but only through doing so can you give some meaning to that person's death.
-Dying patients should be allowed as much control as possible over their lives and routines, and life should, as far as possible, be consistent with the life they led before their illness.
-A funeral should be a time to say your last goodbyes, to begin to work through your grief, to make death through actively participating in the preparation and final service, to begin living again and growing through your experience.