24 Jun 12
I read this book awhile ago, but it was good to be reminded of it again coming across this tumblr entry by Sarah Kathleen Peck.
“You can master the art of living, even in a concentration camp, if you learn how to use humor, apathy, spirituality, acceptance, and hold on to the threads that make life important to you, no matter what anyone else says or does to you; in spite of the injustice of it all.”
12 Aug 11
read this: I Would Like You to Know My Name
23 Apr 11
5 Apr 11
Great writeup on depression – a detailed explanation of the illness. It is not “all in the mind” as perceived.
25 Mar 11
Both published synchronistically on the same day:
20 Dec 10
6 Oct 10
Ben Pieratt writes a comforting email to a friend who was depressed about work. Having been a serial quitter myself before I was self-employed, I can totally empathise with this.
29 Sep 10
“This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realised that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection. I am talking about a client and you sharing some common ground. That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with the client, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle.”
25 Sep 10
While I really feel like writing my own thoughts on Singapore’s economic success – the success that is paid for at a hefty price – I have loads to pack before my moving next week, thus am gonna link these two articles as food for thought:
21 Jul 10
While facing life-changing decisions these couple of years, I came to the conclusion that I will just learn to trust the Universe, that if I intend all my actions for the good to the best of my capacity, the Universe will cater for me in its own way. It is interesting to stumble across this blog post that describes the beliefs/worldview of Buckminster Fuller, who went through a suicidal/depressive/penniless period (sounds familiar) before realising the quoted below, and then “wrote more than thirty books, created numerous design and architectural inventions, was awarded more than twenty five patents, held over forty eight honorary doctorates, and traveled the world lecturing and teaching.”
If one attends to the problems of humanity and commits oneself to solving them, the universe will care for that person the same way it cares for a flower or a bird. So he committed himself to working on the bigger tasks of the world on the absolute faith that the universe’s integrity will pay him back. His philosophy was that changing the world does not occur through preaching or social reforms, but through artifacts that solve the existing challenges of humanity.
From: Every man dies, but not every man lives
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