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DTR CRSS
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DEEP READING
Don’t force yourself to finish a book faster. Deep reading is the only way to engage with the content of any great book.
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life,” Mortimer J. Adler said.
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EMERSON The first wealth is health."
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“All I have learned, I learned from books,” Abraham Lincoln said.
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Active reading: slowing down, making personal notes, underlying best ideas and circling the author's best arguments help me retain more faster
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You can try a no TV day and use that time to read. It’s surprisingly calming. I tried and read more in a single night than most people do in a week. Listen to audiobooks when you don’t have time to read.
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I AM AWARE SO I AM
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KG#
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ~Khalil Gibran
(Book: The Prophet )
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Becoming purified in devotional service
Revatinandana: We always encourage chanting Hare Krsna, is that so?
Prabhupada: Yes. That is the only method in this age. By chanting Hare Krsna, one's... The reservoir of understanding will be cleared. And then you, he can receive, he can receive the spiritual knowledge. Without cleansing the heart it is very difficult to understand and receive spiritual knowledge. All these reformatory measures--brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha--they are simply the cleansing method.
And bhakti is also a cleansing method, vidhi-bhakti. But by engaging oneself in this Deity worship, he also becomes cleansed. Tat-paratve... Sarvopadhi... As he becomes enlightened or advanced in understanding that he is eternal servant of Krsna, he becomes purified. He becomes purified.
Sarvopadhi means he doesn't... Sarvopadhi. He tries to eliminate his upadhi, his designation, that "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this," "I am that." So in this way, when you become fully eliminated of this bodily concept of life, then nirmalam. He becomes nirmala, uncontaminated.
And so long this concept of life is going on that "I am this," "I am that," "I am that," he's still in the... Sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah. Arcayam eva haraye... Even in this process, when they are engaged in Deity worship, arcayam haraye yat-pujam sraddhayehate, with great devotion doing, but na tad bhaktesu canyesu, but he has no sympathy with others or he does not know what is the position of a devotee, then sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah: "He is called material devotee, material devotee."
(December 19, 1970}
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LONELINESS FELT WHEN ALONE > 75% OF TIME
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Having moderate or severe anxiety in midlife is linked to dementia later on, research finds.
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