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May 5

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: make or break

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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But even those of us who disdain superficial, misplaced values can’t help sometimes but feel a twinge of comparison over popularity and perfect appearance.  Human nature is a fickle, fickle thing –  foraging for worth and happiness in ways that can never provide it.

I’ve been thinking lately about what being ok with myself means.  I have a very smart friend who says, ‘good self esteem isn’t the opposite of bad self esteem, self acceptance is the opposite of bad self esteem’  or something close to that.   I like that definition.  Self acceptance means being able to see ourselves realistically and be ok with it.   Not just our external selves, but also our internal selves.  Because it’s our internal selves that really make or break our lives.

 

 – lori

from:

Milfs and the (un)Real Housewives

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Apr 28

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: on duality

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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If you can’t live with yourself and what you have done you will never be happy. Am I a villain? I have been. Am I a hero? No, but I have done some great things. But isn’t that the duality of man?

 – taylor oceans

from:

My Life

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Apr 21

the Infinite Monkey speaks: on the strengthening of good

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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Because that’s where evil always screws up – it hurts people, and there are those who will never recover; it wounds us collectively in the short term; but it galvanizes the good in humanity.  Evil almost always results in the strengthening of good.

 – The Byronic Man

from:

The Good That Created The Boston Marathon Will Overpower The Horror That Raised Its Head Yesterday

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Apr 14

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: on the eater and eaten

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared or fast food, confronts a platter covered with inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. And the result is a kind of solitude, unprecedented in human experience, in which the eater may think of eating as, first, a purely commercial transaction between him and a supplier and then as a purely appetitive transaction between him and his food.

 – Wendell Berry

from:

The Pleasures of Eating

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