Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Tags: Art, Beauty, Brain, Communication, Consumerism, Creativity, Films, Fun, Growth, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Interdependence, Poetry, Social conditioning, Specialization, Stories
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The correct adoption of the GTD methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Capture, Creative thinking, Creativity, David Allen, Films, Growth, GTD, Happiness, Inspiration, Learning, Life, Personal development, Personal productivity, Planning, Poetry, Transcendence, Weekly review, Workflow
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It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Tags: Books, Brain, Communication, Creative thinking, D'Annunzio, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Happiness, Humor, Ideas, Interdependence, Internet, Language, Motivation, Poetry, Society, Transcendence, Virgil, Words
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The other day I saw ‘Misery’; it was one of those classic films that by some reason you miss when in theaters, and which always feel like finding one more french fry in the box when you (more…)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Ageing, Creative thinking, Experience, Films, Fun, Gratitude, Growth, Humor, Inspiration, Intuition, Learning, Music, Poetry, Serendipity, Stories, Transcendence, Words
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Most of us won’t make it, and, even those of us who do -after so many years-, might as well be sacrificed during the final celebrations to honor the power of the Pharaoh. (more…)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Communication, Ego, Focus, Gratification, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Motivation, Optimism, Poetry, Proactive, Social conditioning, Stories, Teamwork, Transcendence
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I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Analogy, Consciousness, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Exercises, Fear, Ideas, Law of fatigue, Learning, Motivation, Optimism, Perception, Poetry, Reminders, Social conditioning, Society, Suicide, Tips, Violence, Visualization, Walking, Words
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When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Communication, Compassion, Consciousness, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Films, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Hurry, Interdependence, Perception, Poetry, Samuel Butler, Society, Tears, Time, Violence, Walking
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It is round the minute no. 50 of the concert, when everybody is feeling more friendly, and there is no distinct separation between musician, audience and music played, and those persons who yearned to kiss each other for so long (more…)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tags: Art, Beauty, Bioenergetics, Body, Communication, Conflict solving, Creativity, Dancing, Embrace, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Evolution, Experience, Fun, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Imitation, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Leisure, Love, Motivation, Music, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Repression, Shyness, Society, Subliminal, Teamwork, Television, Transcendence, Violence
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I wonder if we ever notice how different children are from an adults. At least, when it comes down to space, it is easier to notice the difference: children’s body proportions, with their big heads and shorter limbs, are different to ours, so it is easy to conclude that their experience of space in a different from ours (let alone their different sleep and energy consumption patterns… it is the age of discovery).
But such difference is more subtle when it comes down to time. Time for a child (more…)
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Tags: Children, Cliché, Education, Emotions, Experience, Family, Fatherhood, Fear, Fun, Games, Growth, Introspection, Learning, Love, Perception, Poetry, Time, Transcendence, Writing
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The success (by my current standards) of my previous post on our need of freaks made me think that I am not alone in thinking that this society lacks variety. Better said: it is not that it lacks variety: it (more…)
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Tags: Beauty, Books, Creative thinking, Education, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fascism, Freak, Growth, Inspiration, John Calvin, Learning, Nature, Originality, Paul Valéry, Perception, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Stefan Zweig, Subliminal, Unconscious, Violence
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