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Quote of the day

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." Marcus Aurelius

This has become one of my favorite quotes lately. When I acknowledge that I choose how I respond to my experience, it makes me feel a range of awesome feelings:

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    Thank you for your fear and your doom

    So I have found this attitude of peace, love, prosperity, abundance, and gratitude that makes me enjoy everything to an extent I never thought possible.

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    "Nature", pollution, "disaster", humanity's role, etc.

    Several somewhat significant global events have recently been observed and focused upon by the public, including many of my friends. They talk a lot about "nature" and mankind's "destruction" of it, but I would remind them that the idea of "nature" is an illusion -- an invention of man much like "time" or "right and wrong".

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    All there is ever is the now

    Years ago, this quote made a lot of sense to me when not a whole lot else seemed to. I'll never forget it.

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    The Bullfrog and the Sailfish

    The other night, a friend and I watched a few of the BBC Life documentaries. They're absolutely stunning, especially in 1080p, and particularly on LSD. We watched one on reptiles, one on fish, and one on other deep sea creatures.

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    "Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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    About Me

    Bio

    Every day that goes by, recently, leaves me a very different person than I was the day before. It is, therefore, difficult to write any statement here which I would feel comfortable taking root--for any measurable period of time--in the minds of others in their estimate of me. I am...becoming

    Skills and talents
    Effective communication. Helps propagate my vibes. Graphic Design. Information Architecture. Internet publishing.
    Interests
    education theory, Entheogens, epistemology, Gnosis, heavy metal, Hermeticism, Mysticism, ontology, Philosophy, Religion, the occult, Thelema
    What I'm Reading
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, Illuminatus Trilogy, Mystical Qabalah, The Tree of Life
    What I'm Listening To
    Slayer, Vader, Job for a Cowboy, Dying Fetus, Lamb of God, Skeletonwitch, Black Dahlia Murder, Arsis, Gorod, The Faceless, Mastodon, Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Websites I'm Into
    Knuckles First Metal Blog, Reddit, Speech in the Silence

    Education

    College
    CCAD
    Additional study
    Always studying something!

    Work

    Position
    User Interface Designer/Web Developer