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#4390 - Thursday, October 6, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee

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Like everything mental, the so-called law  of causation contradicts itself. No thing
in  existence has a particular cause; the entire  universe contributes to the
existence of even  the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is  without the
universe being what it is. When  the source and the ground of everything is the 
only cause of everything, to speak of causality  as a universal law is wrong. The
universe is not  bound by its content, because its potentialities  are infinite;
besides it is a manifestation, or  expression of a principle fundamentally and 
totally free.

 

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj


 

from "I Am That", posted to Along The Way

 


 

The Monday issue, as is often the case, did not go out until Tuesday. It had the
first quote by Steve Jobs in the entire dozen years or so that we have been doing
Highlights. It was a memorable one from his 2005 Commencement Address at
Stanford University and bears repeating.

 

 

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't
be trapped  by dogma - which is living with the results of other
people's thinking. Don't let  the noise of other's opinions drown out
your own inner voice. And most  important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary." 

 

~ Steve Jobs 

 

If you have missed hearing or reading this incredible speech in its entirety, here
is a link.  It is "insanely" good, especially his comments about death. 

 

text and video available here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1006/Steve-Jobs-s-2005-Stanford-commencement-address

 

 

My third story is about death.

 

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as
if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression
on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every
morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to
do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for
too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything
— all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these
things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no
reason not to follow your heart.

 

STEVE JOBS

1955 - 2011

 


You Reading This, Be Ready
 
Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
 
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?
 
When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life -
 
What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
 

~ William Stafford
 
(The Way It Is)
 

 

Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/Be_Ready.html

 

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