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Actual birth name: Pourya Oveisi. Started calling myself Paul around the age of 8. Feel free to use Pourya if you can pronounce it.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them. --Benjamin Jouett
Only the shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. --Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. --Sylvia Boorstein
Do not speak- unless it improves on silence. --Buddhist saying
Why is everyone still sitting here? -- Alec Oveisi, very loudly at the end of a film.Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. --Sutta Nipata
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. --Christopher Reeve
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." --Paul Graham
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. --Agnes Repplier
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facebook > myspace

to quote my good friend jon pattillo, "myspace is dead to me"well maybe not dead...but im shopping around for retirement homes for it.
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:37:00 GMT

recycle more, dammit

many folks in this town recycle.  but many still throw out recyclable materials. especially paper productsdid you know practically  every piece of paper that comes in your house is recyclabl...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:16:00 GMT

The 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award

was awarded to Sean Penn on December 18th.  Here is his speech as he posted on his blog found at huffingtonpost.com.  please take the time to read this: The Christopher Reeve First Amendmen...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:58:00 GMT

Prematurity Awareness Month

Below is an email from two dear friends of mine.  Please take the time to read it.  My daughter Hannah was a preemie.  We had an emergency C section a little over a month premature.&nbs...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:26:00 GMT

little man

My son Alec (Alexander Paul Oveisi) turns 5 tomorrow.  I'm in disbelief.  The kid is the funniest little man I know.  For those of you who haven't met him yet, let me give ya a little s...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:22:00 GMT