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Ryan Holiday@RyanHoliday
"Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." Seneca
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Malcolm Dix
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Malcolm Dix
@MalcolmDix
leadership Coach, workshop facilitator, Dad and aspiring Holy Fool
Perth, Australia Beigetreten Aralık 2009
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I'm a big fan of Mr DeBotton. Also check out the OnBeing interview with him. The long version was fascinating. Eloquent bugger... twitter.com/onbeing/status…
The On Being Project@onbeing
“The acceptance of ourselves as flawed creatures seems to me what love really is.” ~@AlaindeBotton onbeing.org/programs/alain…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Absolutely, and if you live in Perth check out the Fringe Festival and also the upcoming PIAF. Plenty of great art to lose oneself in... twitter.com/mertondaily/st…
Thomas Merton@MertonDaily
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Damn straight Mr Merton. That's our challenge - to do the inner work without the running away bit...which till recent years I excelled at twitter.com/mertondaily/st…
Thomas Merton@MertonDaily
Our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self.
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Wow indeed. Yikes... twitter.com/colinmjames/st…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Only wish I saw Prince play here in Perth last year...and I never saw Leonard Cohen live either. Bugger Bugger Bugger twitter.com/anildash/statu…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Always loved his words. Now it's yah for the animation. brainpickings.org/2012/12/10/pal…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
What next... twitter.com/jamesmartinsj/…
James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ
We shut the door on Syrian refugees on the same day we marked Holocaust Remembrance Day and the March for Life. "Never forget"? "Pro life"?
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
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For #HolocaustRemembrance Day, Tomi Ungerer's remarkable book educating children about humanity's darkest hour brainpickings.org/2013/12/11/ott…
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There appears to be no shortage of contradictions in the world at present. Rising above them is indeed our challenge. twitter.com/mertondaily/st…
Thomas Merton@MertonDaily
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them...
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
I kind of like this Pope twitter.com/jamesmartinsj/…
James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel."
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
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“…the heart has got to open in a fundamental way.” Neil Gaiman reads Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" brainpickings.org/2016/12/30/nei… #resist
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Thanks Brainpickings for all you do. Sorry it took me so long to get around to sponsoring you. Love this film. brainpickings.org/2015/11/23/the…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Thanks Leonard. As a non American, I hope this ship sails sooner than later. Happy New Year all. brainpickings.org/2016/12/30/nei…
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
Part of me wishes I was the Captain. Wonderful film. Just go see it. twitter.com/captainmovieuk…
Captain Fantastic@CaptainMovieUK
"Live each day as if it were your last." #CaptainFantastic
Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 English
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"We are facing an extreme surge of irrationality and irrationality always moves in the direction of intolerance." Rebecca Goldstein
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