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Prayer in Distress
heal me father, for i suffer i am in sore distress lay your cooling touch upon my troubled brow bestow peace unsurpassing upon the turmoil of my heart — 4/10/10 – 143
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Outside Myself
i stepped outside myself and a facade lifted for a moment as though i was someone else as though i was a compartment in my own mind. — 1/20/10 – 54
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How your friends’ friends can affect your mood – life – 30 December 2008 – New Scientist it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the…
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Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind – New York Times “The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity, so that in the long run, buying less now may…
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Speaking Alters Your Perceptions
Telling someone something, in some way alters the nature of the thing being told. This is especially true of personal hopes and dreams. Partially, the telling alters the fact by the way the person responds to the hearing. Hopes and dreams, like the smallest of particles, cannot be viewed without…
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Creating Passionate Users: Brain death by dull cubicle You always knew that dull, boring cubicles could suck the joy out of work, but now there’s evidence that they can change your brain. Not mentally or emotionally, no, we’re talking physical structural changes. You could almost say, "Dull, lifeless work environments…
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Thackery on Hatred and Consistency
In describing the character and motivations of one Mr. Osborne toward a certain Mr. Sedley:One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.This is interesting for other reasons also, in…
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When Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Other People Aren’t the Only One’s Listening
Apparently, much of what we understand ourselves to be is based on what we see ourselves do. Our actions dictate as much of our own self image as it does the image other people see of us.
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Laziness: Subtle Fiend of Addiction and Vice
I’m not very good at introductions. I beg of you to bear with me and read on long enough to catch my meaning. What I’m writing here is important to me, because it reflects an internal struggle I face. I hate laziness (though not enough apparently to slap him in…