most sports, martial arts, snowboarding, want to surf, the beach, disk golf, golf, video games (have serious addiction)
I'd like to meet:
Anyone that has soul.
People that can help me to be a better person and achieve the maximum of my potential.
Any GIS people that can help me to travel the world while working to help third world nations get their shit straight.
People to help start a revolution of our society and to make this world a better place for all of us to live in
Id like to meet more people that think about things like this
Intriguing Thoughts
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves."
- Gnarles Barkley
"Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear"
- Thomas Jefferson
"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
- Albert Einstein
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity."
- Albert Einstein
"It is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced."
- Tarthang Tulku
"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."
-Chuang Tzu
"In this world the wise one holds onto confidence and wisdom. Those are the greatest treasures; all other riches are pushed aside."
- Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Buddha
"I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way."
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone
"Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves."
- Tarthang Tulku
"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves."
- Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei
"When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions."
- Tarthang Tulku
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
- Lin Yutang
"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real."
-Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-Colin Powell
"Ambition and anger will disappear when you stop concerning yourself with the fruit of your actions."
- Buddha
"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."
- Peter McWilliams
