Thursday, September 28, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXXIV

 -We need more men and women who are pure leaders. People who influence not through the strength of a large title and by the threat of a big position but via the power of their characters, the nobility of their expertise, the compassion in their hearts and by their unusual dedication to leaving everyone they meet better than they found them.

-My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Maya Angelou.

-The teacher learns the most. 

-In the moment you feel you can't go further lies an enormous opportunity to forge an entirely new level of willpower. 

-Do not betray the powers that sleep within you by staying too late in a soft bed that keeps you sedated. 

-When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. All these things shall love do unto you so that you may know the secrets of your heart. K. Gibran. 

-A wishbone without a backbone doesn't really get you very far. 

-No idea works without doing the work. 

-The way you start your day dramatically influences how it unfolds. 

-As we create each day, so we craft our life. 

Monday, September 25, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXXIII

 -Awesome takes patience. And genius takes time. 

-God, we need to make this world a better, healthier, safer and more loving place. 

-She laughed. Not some forced laugh that so many of us hear at business meetings where good people in quiet fear wear social masks in an effort to fit in, appear powerful and look cool. 

-Life always has a way to work things out for the best. 

-She understood that there are things more important than wealth, acclaim and fame. And that many financially rich people are actually desperately poor. 

-Nothing is more valuable than happiness. 

-She'd found love. She was still in excellent health. She had so many things to be grateful for: to eyes to see the splendors of this wonderful world, two legs to explore it all, food on her table each night at a time when billions have empty bellies. And a roof over her head for ample shelter. She had wise books to read in her library, work that fed her creativity and, as the billionaire said so often, an opportunity to achieve outright mastery not only to benefit herself but also in service to society. 

-Every human being does the best they can do based on their level of consciousness they are currently at and on the grade of true power they can command. 

-Those who hurt others loathe themselves. 

-It's when we face losing everything that we come to know our grandest selves. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXXII

 -External order increases your discipline.

-Sixty-six days of training to make a new habit yours. 

-Persistency sits at the threshold of mastery.

-Doing difficult things that are very important was how the highest achievers and greatest heroes of our civilization embraced their power. 

-When faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increases your growth and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess. So, when you feel like quitting, persevere. You'll get to the next stage soon. 

-Negative thoughts, cranky emotions and strong desires to surrender are a normal part of the process of hardwiring any new regime. 

-The illusion of safety is much more deadly than your rise toward personal mastery. 

-The primary purpose of life is growth. 

-Boredom kills the human spirit. 

-For the A-player the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next. 

-I am not afraid of failing. I am afraid of not growing.

-One habit installation after habit installation is how the pros play. 

-These superstars practiced their habits of victory so often, they've arrived at a place where they forgot how to not do them. 

Saturday, September 9, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXXI

 -The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 

-You gotta love yourself before you can lift the world. 

-Self-control is more indispensable than gunpower. 

-These exceptionalists began as ordinary people. 

-Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways. 

-You should have not any technology in your bedroom. 

-All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end. 

-The real measure of your majesty is shown not in your outer moments before an audience, but in the soft and early light of lonely practice. You become undefeatable by what you do when no one's watching. 

-The brilliant moves in the last seconds of the championship match were automatic: the result of tireless hours of repetition of those splendid moves during training. 

-Installing a habit follows a sixty-six day process. 

-We make our worst decisions and our lowest choices when we're exhausted. 

The 5 AM club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXX

 -For those showing up as victims, future will be very hard because they won't know what hit them. 

-They have given away their power to make change for so long, they've come to believe their powerlessness represents the truth. 

-Most people are passive instead of active builders of the ambitions within them. And then unconsciously they've manufactured a series of excuses about why they can't show up as leaders in their work and capable creators of their lives because they're so scared to leave the safety of their stuckedness and make the very improvements that would bring them to glory. 

-Real leaders always feel great joy when they shine a light on the talents of others. 

-Daily discomfort is the price of enduring success. 

-It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.  

William Ernest Henley

-The masters and the geniuses and the heroes of civilization all lived hard lives. 

-Playing small with your promise demotes our world.

-The single best way to build your willpower is to voluntarily put yourself into conditions of discomfort. 

The 5 AM club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXIX

 -I don't wish for an easy life because there is no growth of my powers there. Give me a challenging life, one that brings out the finest in me. For this makes an iron will. And an unconquerable character. 

-The misuse of technology leads to the destruction of creativity and an extreme reduction of productivity. 

-Dreams don't come true while you are sleeping. 

-Anything legendary requires generous amounts of industry, artistry, and persistency. 

-Anyone can be great for a minute. 

-The common denominator of success: they formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do, even when, they, too, don't feel like doing them. 

-We all have the magic. Most of us don't know how to use it. 

-He thought to himself that this woman's magnetism comes from a place deeper than merely an attractive face. It was a charm born of struggle, an electricity emanating from hurt, an energy emitting through a formidable intellect and a prettiness formed by her robust resolve to step into a person of true power, wisdom and love. 

Thursday, August 31, 2023

The 5 AM club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXVIII

 -What makes the best the best is not their genetics, but their habits. 

-Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein. 

-The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. 

-We want the discipline to become a lifetime routine. 

-The hero does not become great during periods of comfort. The illustrious and noble souls of our world became strong, brave, and moral whilst standing resolutely in the storms of adversity, difficulty and doubt. It is in the moment that you face your deepest weakness that you receive the chance to forge your greatest strengths. Real power then, comes not from a life of ease but one of intense effort, devoted discipline and demanding action in the direction of what your supreme self knows to be right. To continue at a time when you ache to stop. To advance when you long to quit. To persist in the instant when you feel like giving up is to claim your membership among the great warriors and honorable characters who led humanity to a better place through their earned invincibility.  

-To regularly do that which is hard but important when it feels most uncomfortable is how warriors are born. 

The 5 AM club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXVII

 -Why she'd given up so many of the pursuits that had brought her such harmony?

-I am running my life by another series of metrics: by my connection with my natural power and by my intimacy with my authenticity and by the vitality around my physicality and by the size of my joy. 

-She promised herself she'd exploit the challenge she was facing with her investors to raise her grade of courage. 

-Her commitment to defending the natural heroism she'd learn we all have within us, at our center beneath of layers of fear, insecurity and limitation that we all collect as we advance through life. 

-Often, a bad example teaches us more about who we wish to become than a good one could ever provide. 

-One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

-Rise and shine so you'll escape the misery of mediocrity. 

-The best is about to come. 

The 5 AM club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXVI

 -"Namaste". I bow to the Divine in you. 

-Feeding your spirit daily is the activity of genuine leadership royalty.

-Soar with the angels of your highest nature and dance with the gods of your most precious talents for a little time before sunrise, as a tribute to what's most wise and true within you.

-After we are born we begin the departure from our spiritual power and descend into more of what this damaged world wants us to be. 

-Be not seduced by the superficialities that suffocate the human spirit and divorce us from the best within us. 

-As you live each day, so you craft your life.

-What we are doing today is creating our future. 

-I almost wish we were butterflies and live but three summer days. Three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. John Keats. 

Sunday, August 13, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXV

 -It is the ceaseless practice and daily application of it that will make you a heroic human being and an inspirational leader in business and a worldwide uplifter of many. 

-Your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in. 

-Elevating your mindset is only the 25% of the personal mastery equation. 

-Your attitude determines your altitude. 

-Stop insisting on cleaning your head... Clear your heart instead. 

-Heartset is your emotional life. Even with battleproofed beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class Mindset, you won´t win if you heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment, and fear. 

-Life´s reward for the admirable way you have behaved. 

-If you want to experience exponential growth and unparalleled performance you need to dial a masterful Mindset but also, repair, rebuild and reinforce a wining Heartset. So that, all the dark and toxic emotion from your past pains are clearing out. Released and cleansed and purified. Forever. And so your heart, once hardened by life´s trials reopens in all its noble glory. 

-Everyday is just better with some exercise in it. 

-Every single one of us has an unstained spirit and spotless soulfulness that rests at our very center. 

-The majority is programmed by society. 

Saturday, July 29, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXIV

 -Victories occur before warriors walk onto the field. 

-Triumph belongs to the one who prepares the most.

-If you want to be the best in the world you need to put in enormous amounts of practice time to advance your expertise. 

-Ten thousand hours of training into becoming better human beings. 

-It is only when we improve when our lives improve. 

-Everything you do in your outer world is an absolute consequence of what is happening inside you. 

-Your fortune always follows your fearlessness. 

-Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you've accessed in yourself. 

-External always expresses internal. 

-Greatness is an inside game. 

-The are four interior empires to train: Mindset, Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset. Together, these four private arenas for the foundation of the true primal power that rest inside every human being alive today. 

-It's your life. Do what fits you best and feels right to you. 

-Part-time commitment delivers part-time results. 

-By rising at five, I feel more focused, less stressed, more secure, and way more energetic. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXIII

 -One of the ways the great men and women of the world avoided complexity was by incorporating tranquility and serenity into the front part of their days. 

-Many of the people who fueled the progress of our civilization shared the habit of raising before daybreak. 

-The great ones all spent a lot of times alone. 

-Solitude, the kind you can access before the sun comes up is a force multiplier around your power, expertise, and connection to being human.

-Your escalation requires your isolation. 

-The great ones understand that it is far smarter to create one piece of art that endures for generations rather than thousands of projects that express no genius. 

-The solitude, silence, and stillness of daybreak also triggers the production of neurotransmitters like dopamine, the inspirational fuel that serves super producers so well, and serotonin, the beautiful pleasure drug of the brain. Automatically and naturally you enter what I described earlier as the Flow state. 

-Ingenuity without integrity is not that impressive to me. 

-Sweat more in practice. Bleed less in war. 

-Battles are won in the early light of intense training, when no one is watching.  

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XXII

 -Once you are aware of the fact, as you near your highest talents and most luminous gifts, the scared side of your will, rear its ugly head and try to mess up the masterpieces you've been creating by pursuing every distraction and escape route possible to avoid finishing, you can manage that self-destructive behavior. You can step outside of it. You can disempower it, simply by watching its attempts to denounce your mastery. 

-The neuroscience of self-sabotage. 

-Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt. 

-Embracing the wisdom of knowing when enough is enough. 

-We absolutely must venture into those unexplored places where possibility lives to become more intimate with our primal genius and to become all we are meant to be. Knowing we have higher reaches of talent and courage left to visit, floods a human heart with immense excitement. 

-If you plan on being less than who you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. 

-The three options of fear are: flight, fight or freeze. 

-It is because of this fear we face we embrace as many diversions as possible to make us feel better, even if only for a minute. 

-It's takes and awesome amount of courage to feel the terror of true personal and professional growth.

-Continuing when you are frightened is how you become a legend. 

-All builders consistently break through their fear, daily, to find higher levels of prowess, impact and human freedom.

-The fantastic reward you'll receive as you fully express your strengths and gifts is not only the product of your heroic efforts. It's who you will become by advancing through the fire of your fears and the heat of your trials along the process to mastery. 

The 5 am club. Quotes XXI

 -An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.

-The new technologies and social media are not only eroding the Everest of our glorious productive potential, they are also training us to be less human. We have fewer real conversations, fewer true connections and fewer meaningful interactions. 

-Filling valuable hours with meaningless moves is the drug of choice for most people. 

-Their precious concentration has been hijacked by a foolish use of technology and their priceless focus has been kidnapped, costing them their chance to create their best work and calibrate their finest lives. 

-Simplify. Become a purist. Less is more. 

-An intense concentration only on what matters most is how the pros realize victory. 

-The closer you get to your genius, the more you'll face the sabotage of your fears. 

-You'll become scared of leaving the majority and having to deal with the by products of mastery, like being different from most people, jealousy from competitors and the pressure to make your next project even better. 

-We all have a subconscious saboteur that lurks within our weakest selves.

-I can make the better choices that will give me better daily results. 

Saturday, July 15, 2023

John Wick. Chapter 4. Memorable quotes

 -Friendship means little when it is convenient. 


-You want to die? That's your choice. A good death only comes after a good life. 


-Helen...


-Never thought I'd see the day. 

-Where do you think he is? Heaven or hell?

-Who knows?

-Farewell, my son. 

Saturday, July 8, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XX

 -We minimize our abilities and begin a lifelong process of playing small with our powers and constructing prisons around our strengths. We stop behaving as leaders, creative producers and possibilitarians. And we start acting as victims. 

-The potential unexpressed turns to pain.

-The more we decrease the volume of our unhealthy narrative which, neurobiologically speaking, is a creation of our limbic system, the more we will hear this sublime call on ourselves to rise up to the blatant expression of our greatest genius. 

-As we betray our true power, a part of us starts to die. 

-We become our associations. 

-You'll never have a positive influence in your field and make a beautiful life if you hang with negative people. 

-There is a staggering difference between being busy and being productive 

-As we leave our youth, there's a pull toward complacency. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XIX

 -Real leader never negotiate their standards.

-I am not afraid of an army of lions lead by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. 

-The true power inside a human heart versus the transitory power delivered by a big office, a fast car and a large bank balance. 

-The power to live with honor, nobility, audacity, and integrity. 

-Doesn't matter if you are a CEO or a janitor. 

-Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them. 

-We are exactly where we need to be to receive the growth lessons we are meant to learn. 

-Human beings have a tragic habit of remembering the things that would be smart to forget and forgetting the wonderful things it would be wise to remember. 

-We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

-Abundance is nature's way. There is not scarcity of flowers, lemon trees, and stars in the sky.  

Friday, July 7, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XVIII

 -Many of the finest athletes in the world had less innate skill than their competition.

-The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

-Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness everyday of the week. 

-A players don't get lucky. They make lucky. 

-Each time you resist a temptation and pursue and optimization you invigorate your heroism. 

-Victims have big tv's, leaders have big libraries.

-Your daily behavior is always a function of your deepest believes. 

-I am grateful. I am forgiving. I am giving. My life is beautiful, creative, productive, prosperous, and magical. 

-We subconsciously adopt a thinking pattern by learning it from the people who most influence us at an early age: our parents, our teachers, and our friends. 

-What we do creates the results we see. 

-The world is a mirror. And we get from life not what we want, but that which we are. 

-Every human being has an instinct for greatness.  

Sunday, July 2, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XVII

 -The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a wells pent life is eternal. Cicero. I

-I'll sleep when I am dead.

-Who will cry when you die?

-What will those who know you whisper about how you lived once you are not longer here?

-That day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last?

-Most of us alive today with we had more time. Yet, we waste the time we have. Thinking about dying brings what matters most into much sharper focus. You'll stop allowing digital distraction, cyber diversions and online nuisances to seal the irreplaceable hours of the blessing called your life. You never get your days back. 

-Live in a way that feels true to you and pay attention to the small miracles everyday brings. 

-Be grateful for every moment. 

-Stop wasting time on insanely trivial things. 

-Have vast reservoirs of ability that absolutely must be accessed and then applied in order for us to lead energetic, joyful, peaceful, and meaningful lives. To neglect this hidden force inside of us is to create a breeding ground for the pain of potential unused, the frustration of fearlessness unembraced and the lethargy of master unexplored. 

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XVI

 -Because of the way the remarkable ones saw the world, they were called kooks, misfits, weirdos.

-The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. 

-Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. Alice Walker. 

-The majority of people on the planet today really are trapped in superficiality. 

-Producing with precision rather than being unprofessional and careless. 

-The average artist focuses more on the cash than on the craft. 

-Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. Rumi. 

-The dark side of genius: the very quality that makes you special in one area is the same one that makes you a misfit in another. 

-Philip of Macedonia in a message to Sparta: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into you land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city. 

Sparta's reply: "If"

-With better daily awareness you can make better daily choices, and with better daily choices you'll start seeing better daily results. 

-It's your decisions that make your results. 

-There's ton of competition at ordinary, but there's almost none at extraordinary. 

-How often do you meet someone at a store or in a restaurant who is fully present, astoundingly polite, unusually knowledgeable, full of enthusiasm, incredibly hardworking, intensely imaginative, noticeably inventive, and gasp worthily great at what they do? 

-Consistency is the DNA of mastery. 

-Today is a glorious day and I'll live it at excellence, with boundless enthusiasm, and limitless integrity, true to my visions and with a heart full of love.  

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XV

 -Punctuality is the trait of royalty. 

-You can take the country out of the boy, but you can't take the country out of the boy. 

-If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing. 

-My antidote to average. 

-Cyber zombies. I see them everyday. It's like they are not real human beings anymore. More like robots, glued to their screens. Not present. And half alive to life. 

-Honesty has been one of my core convictions. 

-The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it.

-Spent money I didn't have, buying things I didn't need to impress people I didn't like. 

-The men who are great live with that which is substantial. They do not stay with that which is superficial. 

-The 95% of performers don't invest painstaking attention into the tiniest of details and fail to refine the smallest of finishes like the great masters do. 

-The best, in any endeavor, appreciate the fact that your good name is branded onto every piece of work that you release. 

-Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one. 

-Less is more. 

-When you deconstruct how the superstars, virtuosos and geniuses achieved what they did, you'll realize that it was their heightened awareness of the opportunities for daily greatness that inspired them to make the better daily choices that yielded better daily results. 

-Power of self-education.   

Saturday, June 10, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XIV

 -Real power never comes from anything external. 

-A lot of people with a lot of money aren't very wealthy. 

-Genuine power doesn't arise from who you are outside and what you possess externally. 

-The world is lost right now. 

-Real riches come from being able to lead your days on your own terms versus blindly following the sheep.

-Sheeple is what too many people now are. 

-All the great teachers of history owned very few things. 

-The futility of spending their days chasing objects that count for nothing at the end. 

-To lead is to serve.

-The more one learn, the more one can achieve. 

-Health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see. 

-Rest and recovery is a necessity. 

-Inspiration gets fed by isolation. 

-Anyone can be a critic. Takes guts to be an encourager. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XIII

 -One hour for yourself before dawn.

-Excuses breed no genius.

-All change with consistent practice. 

-When you feel like surrendering, continue. 

-He's been true to his word in a world where too many people say thing they never do and make promises they fail to keep. 

-Most people stay the say their entire lives. Too frightened to leave the way they operated yesterday. 

-Nature notices your effortful actions and then goes ahead and replies to you faithful commitment with a series of unanticipated wins. 

-The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation. 

-A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. 

-The humblest is the greatest. 

-There is a big difference between real power and fake power. 

-Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets, applause and acclaim, money and mansions. All that's fine, it truly is, so long as you don't get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things. Enjoy them, just don't get attached to them. Have them, just don't base your identity around them. Appreciate them, just don't need them. These are only forms of fake power our civilization programs us to believe we must pursue to be successful. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XII

 -Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Bukowski.

-Your mindset is an enormously potent for private greatness, prodigious productivity and creative victory, along with your Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset. 

-Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. 

-Raise the joy of others and you´ll get even more joy.

-All that matters on your last day on earth is the potential you´ve leveraged, the heroism you´ve demonstrated and the human lives you've graced. 

-Neither a bull nor a noble-spirited man comes to be what he is all at once; he must undertake hard winter training.

-Voluntary discomfort keeps me strong, disciplined and focused on the central few priorities my life's built around. 

-Appearances can be misleading and clothing doesn't convey one's character. Looks really do not reveal the quality of a person. 

-Wise from fully lived days.

-Over scheduled, machine dominated and sometimes soulless lives so many among us are experiencing.  

Friday, June 2, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XI

 -Those who feel more than most people, sometimes believe they have been cursed. In fact, the have been granted a gift: one that allows them to sense what others miss, experience the delights that most neglect and notice the majesty in ordinary moments. Yes, such people get hurt more easily, yet they are also the ones who create great symphonies, architect dazzling buildings and find cures for the sick. 

-Only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow. Tolstoy.

-You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. 

-It is only when you get away from the noise and nuisance and be in quiet and tranquility that you remember who you are truly meant to be. 

-Just say yes to life.

-A magic will show up for you the more you start exploiting the terrific opportunities that appear along your path, seemingly by accident. 

-You can't win a game you don't play. 

-Life has got your back, even when it doesn't look like it does. But you need to do your part and go all in when windows of opportunity appear. 

Thursday, June 1, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes X

 -In a world that seeks to keep you down, build yourself up. In an epoch that wishes you would stay in the dark, step into your light. At a time that mesmerizes you to forget your gifts, reclaim your genius. 

-Display respect and compassion. 

-I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is not brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible handing it on to future generations. 

-Commitment, discipline, patience, and work. Values few believe in these days, where so many have an entitlement mentality, expecting a rich, productive and fulfilling life to just show up one day like a sparrow at the beginning of spring. 

-A society of adults behaving like spoiled little children is how I sometimes see our world right now. 

-Nothing works for those who don't do the work. 

-You will learn to rise early, regularly, so you'll get more done by noon than most people get done in a week and so you'll optimize your health, happiness and peacefulness. 

-There is a reason so many of the great achievers of the world get up before the sun: it's the most special part of the day. 

-Empires arrive in many forms, economic is just one of them. You can also create empires of artistry, productivity, humanity, philanthropy, personal freedom, and even spirituality. 

-Sensitivity born of latent pain. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes IX

 -All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. 

-Each one of you carries a quiet genius and a triumphant hero within your hearts. 

-You will be faced with the chance of showing leadership, wherever you are and in all that you do. 

-Leadership is an arena everyone gets to play in. Because leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do and in who you are. It's about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life. 

-Never work only for the income. 

-They way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement and excellence you bring to it. 

-You have such power within you and it reveals itself most with the first rays of daybreak. 

  

MUSIC. Schiller. Midsommar

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes VIII

 -Too many dumb people around these days. Taking stupid fashion pictures of themselves with pouty lips in clothes they. can't afford. Hanging with people they don't even like. 

-I'd rather live a thoughtful life. A risky life. A real life. An artist's life. Drives me crazy how superficial people have become. 

-Everything will be ok in the end. And if it is not ok, it's not the end. 

-The soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret. 

-We crave social approval. We want our peers to respect us. We hope our neighbors will like us. We buy all sort of things we really don't need and obsess about making money we really don't enjoy.

-We falsely believe that material from outside will fill what's empty within ourselves. Yet, it never will. 

-We realize we are going to die. What's truly important comes into much sharper focus. We become more contemplative. We start to wonder if we have been true to our talents, loyal to our values, and successful on the terms that feel right to us. And we think about those we most love will say about us when we are gone.  

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes VII

 -Addicted to my technology. It's draining my concentration. 

-All the noise in my life is taking my energy. 

-Pressure is a privilege. 

-With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer, and human being. 

-To find your best self you must lose your weak self. 

-The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live. 

-Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. 

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Communicative approach in teaching an L2. Criticisms

 Many schools are adopting a communicative approach at the time to teach an L2. Here, we are going to detail several criticisms (Swan, 1985; Bax, 2003) regarding this extended doctrine:

1. Assumes no L1 transfer. L2 learners already possess communicative skills that might be useful. These L1 communicative skills are ignored and they could be used to enhance the L2 learning process. 

2. No consideration of new knowledge or usefulness. This approach does not take into consideration the learners' background knowledge nor the usefulness of the practice implemented. 

3. Contextual factors affecting learners are avoided. Social, environmental, personal, academic, and motivational factors affecting L2 learners are considered. 

4. Academic explanation avoided. Since essential aspects of any language are reduced to a minimum or are not taught (grammar, phonetics, spelling, etc.), L2 learners cannot comprehend the functioning of the L2 language, which fosters the creation of multiple learning gaps. 

5. Egocentrism, the method is all you need. The means or method justifies the end. However, there is not any universal truth in education, no magical formula that can guarantee that with its implementation learners can become fluent in the L2.   

6. Reactive learnersLearners are dependent on the teacher and external factors. They cannot build their own knowledge since the grammatical, semantic, and phonetic rules are reduced to a minimum, which prevents them from understanding the processes and functioning of the L2 language. Therefore, L2 learners under this approach cannot become independent learners. Their knowledge is always outside-in, instead of inside-out. 

Therefore, an L2 teaching based upon this approach, creates confusion and inefficiency. The use of this approach alone, also fosters the development of learning gaps since learners are not provided with all the necessary tools to learn. Also, this approach builds dependent learners, not able to build their own L2 knowledge since they don't know the grammatical, phonetic, and semantic rules.  


Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes VI

 -As you grew up, you forgot how to be human. You forgot how to be bold and enthusiastic, and loving, and wildly alive. Being ordinary became acceptable. 

-The lamp of your creativity, your positivity and your intimacy with your greatness grew dim as you began to worry about fitting in, having more than others, and being popular. 

-Pain is the doorway into deep. 

-Tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. 

-Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, and authenticity. 

-One who sweats more in training, bleeds less in war. 

-High victory is made in those early morning hours when no one's watching and while everyone else is sleeping.

-We only hear what we are ready to hear. 

-Culture of cyber-zombies. 

-Self-education is, I believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov. 

-To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell. 

-Few of us are willing to do the very things that would cause our hidden genius to present itself. 

-The majority of us have been hypnotized out of the luminosity that is our essence. 

-The job of the leader is to help disbelievers embrace your vision, the powerless to overcome the weaknesses, and the hopeless to develop faith. 

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Chapter 8. Renunciation and Daring. Quotes.


-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 doesn’t feel alone and sad, he cannot be a warrior at all.

-The warrior is sensitive to every aspect of phenomena.

-We are so accustomed to accept what is bad for us and rejecting what is good for us.

-The warrior who has accomplished true renunciation is completely naked and raw, without even skin or tissue. He has renounced putting on a new suit of armor or growing a thick skin, so his bone and morrow are exposed to the world. He has no room and no desire to manipulate situations. He is able to be, quite fearlessly, what he is. At this point, having completely renounced his own comfort and privacy, paradoxically, the warrior finds himself more alone. He is like an island, sitting alone in the middle of a lake. Occasional ferry boats and commuters go back and forth between the shore and the island, but all that activity only expresses the further loneliness, or the aloneness of the island. Although the warrior’s life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others. The fullness of his experience is his own, and he must live with his own truth. Yes, he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. That is not something to feel bad about, it is a cause for rejoicing. It is entering the warrior’s world.

El corazón del guerrero. Chogyam Trungpa

“El guerrero que ha logrado la verdadera renuncia está completamente desnudo y en carne viva, sin piel ni tejido. Ha renunciado a ponerse una nueva armadura o dejarse crecer una piel gruesa, por lo que su hueso y entrañas están expuestos al mundo. No tiene espacio ni deseo de manipular situaciones. Es capaz de ser, sin temor alguno, lo que es. En este punto, habiendo renunciado por completo a su propia comodidad e intimidad, paradójicamente, el guerrero se encuentra más solo. Es como una isla, sentado solo en medio de un lago. Ocasionalmente, los transbordadores y los viajeros van y vienen entre la costa y la isla, pero toda esa actividad solo expresa la mayor soledad o la soledad de la isla. Aunque la vida del guerrero está dedicada a ayudar a los demás, se da cuenta de que nunca podrá compartir completamente su experiencia con los demás. La plenitud de su experiencia es suya, y debe vivir con su propia verdad. Sí, está cada vez más enamorado del mundo. Esa combinación de historia de amor y soledad es lo que le permite al guerrero acercarse constantemente para ayudar a los demás. Al renunciar a su mundo privado, el guerrero descubre un universo mayor y un corazón roto cada vez más pleno. Eso no es algo por lo que sentirse mal, es motivo de regocijo. Es entrar en el mundo del guerrero.”

Monday, May 29, 2023

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes V

 -I've learned the importance of being around only the highest quality, wherever I go. 

-My enterprises only offer services that ethically enrich our clients. 

-I spend my time in the most light-filled and inspiring of spaces and visit the most enchanting of places. 

-I only surround myself with human beings who fuel my joy, stoke my peace and excite me to become a better man. 

-Done is better than perfect. 

-Turn your I can'ts into I cans.

-Uplifting humankind is the master sport of business that the top 5% play. 

-You two each have a hero inside of you. You knew this as a child, before adults told you to limit your powers, shackle your genius, and betray the truths of your heart. 

-Adults are deteriorated children. When you were much younger, you understood how to live. Staring at stars filled you with delight. Running in a park made you feel alive. And chasing butterflies flooded you with joy. 

-For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. 

Sunday, May 21, 2023

The 5 am club y Robin Sharma. Quotes IV

 -Wealth of wrinkles.

-Her eyes looked sad from old hurts that had never been healed. And from the current chaos that was infecting her beloved company. 

-This era of devices destroying our focus and our ability to think deeply. 

-Exceptional performers make phenomenal things happen to them. 

-Tine is one of the most precious commodities. 

-The rich invest in time. The poor invest in money. 

-I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. 

-The world is going a little berserk. Too much greed and enough good sense. 

-Need to by myself and not some sheep with no balls, blindly following the flock down a path that leads to nowhere. 

-You can fit in. Or you can change the world.

-When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. 

-The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you find it in you to press ahead.  

Saturday, May 20, 2023

The 5 am club y Robin Sharma. Quotes III

 -The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions. 

-World-class begins where your comfort zone ends. 

-We have encouraged a culture of soft, weak and delicate people who can't keep promises, who bail on commitments and who quit on their aspirations the moment the smallest obstacle shows up. 

-Hard is good.

-Only those devoted enough to go to the fiery edges of their highest limits will expand them. 

-A major key to happiness is knowing you have done whatever it took to earn your rewards and passionately invested the effortful audacity to become your best. 

-The place where your greater discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives. 

-Walking into the very things that scare you is how you reclaim your forgotten power. And how you get back the innocence and awe you lost after childhood. 

The 5 Am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes II

 -You too have have been disappointed by the barren winters of a life weakly lived. 

-Don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future. 

-You are exactly where you need to be to receive the growth necessary for you to lead the unusually productive, extremely prodigious and exceptionally influential life that you have earned through your harshest trials. 

-Nothing is wrong at this moment, even if it feels like everything is falling apart. 

-If you sense your life is a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are a little stronger than your faith. 

-Every challenging event you have experienced, each toxic person that you have encountered and all the trials you have endured have been perfect preparation to make you into the person you now are. 

-You needed these lessons to activate the treasures, talents and powers that are now awakening within you.

-You wonderful human being.  

The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma. Quotes

 -Life is too short to play small with your talents.

-You were born into the opportunity as well as the responsibility to become legendary.

-The great women and men of the world where givers not takers.

-Create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace. This, my friends, is how you soar with the angels. And walk alongside with the gods. 

-Limitation is nothing more than a mentality.

-Your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves. 

-I know you have had some difficult times in your life. We all have. I get that you might be feeling things haven't turned out the way you thought they would when you were a little kid, full of fire, desire and wonder. You didn't plan on each day looking the same, did you? In a job that might be smothering your soul. Dealing with stressful worries and endless responsibilities that stifle your originality and steal your energy. Lusting after unimportant pursuits and hungry for the instant fulfillment of trivial desires, often driven by a technology that enslaves us instead of liberating us. Living the same week a few thousand times a calling it a life. 

-Too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.  

Sunday, April 30, 2023

🎵 I Walk With Ghosts by Scott Buckley | Music for Relaxation and Stress ...

Back Home by Fritz Kalkbrenner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7j0TrYKMk

So the sea has gone to take me

Maybe now I'd fell it fall
I tell myself I won't get astray
I believe it's going be hard
So I look across the lake
To a point far out of sight
Over me comes the rain
And I be gone
But then one night
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways to go
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways back home
I ain't afraid of leaving
And all those things I left behind
Most of them ain't ment to last
None of them ain't even mine
Too tired of marking time
Giving too much away
Not a single dime is left
So I'm calling better days
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways to go
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways back home
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways to go
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways back home
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways to go
I'm looking for ways over water
I'm looking for ways back home

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The heart of the warrior. Shambala.

 -"At this point, having completely renounced his own comfort and privacy, paradoxically the warrior finds himself more alone. He is like an island sitting alone in the middle of a lake. Occasional ferry boats and commuters go back and forth between the shore and the island, but all that activity only expresses further loneliness, or the aloneness of the island. Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others. The fullness of this experience is his own and he must live with his own truth. Yes he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about: it is a cause for rejoicing. It is entering the warrior's world"

Shambala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Chogyam Trungpa. 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Mayor of Kingston. Memorable phrases. S2E10

 -We weren't blessed with easy. You know that. We just do our best to stand tall. And come in tomorrow, even with the tiniest bit of hope it'll be better than today. You have a child coming. You have a life. So, you can't go waving this around like a badge 'cause it will define you. And you are not just this moment. You're a good man. You're my brother. And you made a mistake. You won't own it, you won't eat it, for your child. For you wife. 

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School

 -The parents entrusting their children to this school can only hope and expect that those children will be educated to become competent in life.

-What real present day life demands of people must be reflected in the organization of this school. 

-Nowadays people of insight are demanding an education that aims not at one-sided knowledge but at the ability to do things, not a merely cultivating intellectual gifts but at training the will. 

-It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will. 

-Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. 

-Waldorf School will be a primary school that teaches its students through basting its educational goals and curriculum on insight into the nature of the total human being, an insight that must be alive in each teacher. 

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Assembly bike

 https://www.decathlon.com/blogs/how-to-maintain-repair/assembly-video-st100



Tuesday, July 26, 2022

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. 

Thursday, June 2, 2022

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


Saturday, April 23, 2022

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.

 

Saturday, April 9, 2022

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. 

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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. 

Saturday, April 2, 2022

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. 

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

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. 


Sunday, February 27, 2022

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. 

Saturday, January 29, 2022

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. 


Sunday, January 2, 2022

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. 


Saturday, January 1, 2022

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.


Friday, December 31, 2021

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.