Follow the Voice of Your Heart ...

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily...

~ Wilhelm Reich ~

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Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future.



~ Jigoro Kano ~

Are you One of Us or One of Them?

If we must all agree, all work together, we're no better than a machine. If an individual can't work in solidarity with his fellows, it's his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We've been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ in The Dispossessed

Some Apollo Astronaut Quotes

Here are some images and quotes by Apollo astronauts when contemplating the earth from space.



"Everything that I ever knew - my life, my loved ones, the Navy - everything, the whole world was behind my thumb." –James Lovell



"We went to explore the Moon, and in fact discovered the Earth." –Eugene Cernan

Damned if you ...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Oh, My Secret Heart

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.

~ Stephen King ~

Getting it Wrong

At the risk of adding insult to injury I give you this link to a clip showing Mike and Ruby getting a sprint start wrong.

Follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXMHoquqsfc.

I am not sure how much was them getting it wrong and how much was the start technology doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

It takes some serious composure to cope with this stuff at international level.