Johan Empa @JohanEmpa

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**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 1h

"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire

#Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamSafire #Journalism #Sources

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**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 5h

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy

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**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 9h

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

Snowflake is a word used by sociopaths in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy.
-- John Cleese

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**sjar@itsmesjarlie** @sjar@mastodon.online · 11h

11h

sjar@itsmesjarlie @sjar@mastodon.online

#words
#wisdom

**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 13h

13h

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues.... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
-- Robert Pirsig

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**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 17h

17h

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

Experience is NOT what happens to you; it is what YOU DO with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley

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#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

**Serenity Meditations** @Sanjivana@mastodon.social · 18h

18h

Serenity Meditations @Sanjivana@mastodon.social

" LIFE AND JOURNEY OF KAY "

A healing journey completed,

Special interview

With special guest

KAY DOWNIE

by
Yogi Sanjivana

Video link:
https://youtu.be/oH0nBQCYwz0?si=7_0eevCe4m3LryKD

For Inquiries :

Kay Downie

LinkedIn :
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email: kay@thesoulmechanic.co.uk

website:
kaydownie.co.uk

Yogi Sanjivana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogi-sanjivana-serenity-meditations-42952621a

https://sanjivana.com/contact/

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@Braininabowl@mastodon.gamedev.place · 20h *

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@Braininabowl@mastodon.gamedev.place

You know the expression "#Intelligence is knowing that a #tomato is a fruit, #wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad"?

This statement says intelligence is about knowing facts, and wisdom is about applying knowledge.

That's wrong on so many levels, and it's been bothering me for a while now. So time for a good old-fashioned #rant.

**Tikkhapaññā** @tikkhapanna@mastodon.online · 20h

20h

Tikkhapaññā @tikkhapanna@mastodon.online

What does discernment come from?

You might compare it with learning to become a potter, a tailor, or a basket weaver. The teacher will start out by telling you how to... weave different patterns, but the proportions and beauty of the object you make will have to depend on your own powers of observation.
Suppose you weave a basket and then take a good look at its proportions, to see if it’s too short or too tall. If it’s too short, weave another one, a little taller, and then take a good look at it to see if there’s anything that still needs improving, to see if it’s too thin or too fat.
Then weave another one, better-looking than the last. Keep this up until you have one that’s as beautiful and well proportioned as possible, one with nothing to criticize from any angle. This last basket you can take as your standard. You can now set yourself up in business.
~Ajahn Lee

#Buddhism #Dhamma #Theravada

**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 1d

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley

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**Wisdom in Space** @wisdom@c.im · 1d

Wisdom in Space @wisdom@c.im

Darwin's expression, "the struggle for existence," is sometimes erroneously interpreted as the struggle between different species. In reality, the struggle Darwin was thinking of and which drives evolution forward is the competition between near relations. What causes a species to disappear or become transformed into a different species is the profitable "invention" that falls by chance to one or a few of its members in the everlasting gamble of hereditary change. The descendants of these lucky ones gradually outstrip all others until the particular species consists only of individuals who possess the new "invention."
-- Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression)

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