Thought For The Day No. 51: With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

...great example of circular logic..

"If reading were not supposed to be illegal, then it wouldn't be against the law,would it?" 

Anon 

..the correct answer is either yes or no.

Thought For The Day No. 50 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psyhologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

Taking the initiative is not a zero-sum game. If you take the last piece of pie or cake, you deprive another person of it who may have wanted it. You take the initiative and, potentially, others can actually benefit from it..

Thought For The Day No. 49 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

..psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

Kyle: ..we've all learned that people look for meaning in books, and sometimes, even if it isn't there, they'll try and invent their own meaning.
Stan: Yeah..that's why we all need to avoid books and stick to television.

South Park Se14Ep2 The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs

Thoughts For The Day No. 48 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

Imagination Imagination Imagination! Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imagination Imaginatiooooooooooon! 

Song from 'South Park', season 11, episode 10.

Thought For The Day No. 47 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

..psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.

Thomas Watson, founder of IBM

Thought ForThe Day No. 46 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

It has been usual for men to think and to say, "Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor." Now, however, there is among an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, "One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves." The truth is that oppressor and slave are cooperators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves. A perfect Knowledge perceives the action of law in the weakness of the oppressed and the misapplied power of the oppressor. A perfect Love, seeing the suffering which both states entail, condemns neither. A perfect Compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed. A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically. He could not find and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking. Not having commenced manfully to control his thoughts, he is not in a position to control affairs and to adopt serious responsibilities. He is not fit to act independently and stand alone, but he is limited only by the thoughts which he chooses.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice. A man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self reliance. And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the more manly, upright, and righteous he becomes, the greater will be his success, the more blessed an enduring will be his achievements.

James Allen

Thought For The Day No. 44 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

Today I am more convinced then ever that what each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind, or whatever your own conception of supreme good may be, is experienced in its essence as more life. When we experience expansive emotions of happiness, self-confidence, and success, we enjoy more life. And to the degree that we inhibit our abilities, frustrate our God-given talents and allow ourselves to suffer anxiety, fear, self condemnation and self-hate, we literally choke off the life force available to us and turn our back upon the gift which our creator has made. To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

Maxwell Maltz

Thought For The Day No. 43 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his/her spiritual being..[and] inner self. Whether or not he/she is actually present, whether or not he/she is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

I did not know whether my wife was alive, and I had no means of finding out...but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need for me to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, of my thoughts, and the image of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I would still have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of her image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as satisfying. 'Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death'.

Viktor Frankl

Thought For The Day No. 42 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

'That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind'.

Martin Luther-King

Thought For The Day No. 41 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

Thought For The Day No. 39 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

..psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

When proper respect towards the dead is shown at the end and continued after they are far away, the moral force (tê) of a people has reached its highest point

Ancient Chinese, Analects.

...so the Lithuanians do have the right idea then!

Thought For The Day No. 38 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor Frankl

Thought For The Day No. 37 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

One should never strike a woman, not even with a flower.

Hindu saying

Thought For The Day No. 36 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

..spiritual guru, psychologist and arbiter of good taste..

Death is better for every man than life with shame.

Beowulf

Thought For The Day No. 35 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

She saw there ... the one who seduces another’s close-trusted wife.

Description of Náströnd (hell) in Völuspá, from the Old Norse Poetic Edda.

Thought For The Day No. 34 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

Those who make religion their God will not have God for their religion.

Thomas Erskine of Linlathen

Thought For The Day No. 33 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

Why do people use the cliché 'meteoric rise', when meteors go downwards through the earth's atmosphere? 

A. Whyte

Thought For The Day No. 32 - The Rabbi Anders Weiss

The voice of your passions can be louder than that of your conscience. Your passions speak differently - they scream at you - whereas your conscience speaks to you in a quiet but firm voice.

William Ellery Channing

Thought For The Day No. 31 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another."

Winston Churchill

Thought For The Day No. 30 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

The greatest gifts can be destroyed by idleness.

Michel de Montaigne