“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence-a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres, perhaps. It was enough to catch that rhythm, momentarily to be myself a part of it. In that instant I could feel no doubt of man’s oneness with the universe. The conviction came that that rhythm was too orderly, too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance-that, therefore, there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of a man’s despair and found it groundless… . For those who seek it, there is inexhaustible evidence of an all-pervading intelligence. Man is not alone.”
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A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials
by Jim Rohn
Why Not Eat Octopus?
Silvia Killingsworth on the ethics of eating an animal that has been characterized as “the closest we’ll get to meeting an intelligent alien”:
“It is impossible for us to fully know the inner lives of octopuses, but the more we continue to study them and other forms of life, the…
Patrick Stewart Surprises Trekkie Who Has Life-Threatening Illness With Out-Of-This-World Visit
Patrick Stewart channeled the heroism of Captain Picard when he surprised this little Trekkie.
10 Choices You Won’t Regret in 10 Years
I don’t regret the things I’ve done.
I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.
In the end, more than anything else, we regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were too afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
12 Things You Need to Remind Yourself of When You Wake Up
Each morning is a brand new opportunity. What you do today is what matters most. Today is another chance to get it right.
We may not always love everything about our lives, but deep down we do love and appreciate the magic of life itself. Some part of us believes that everything and anything is possible.
Sadly, though, we don’t always believe these possibilities are within our reach, even when they are. The problem is we choose to believe otherwise. We choose to believe we are incapable of living our lives the way we want to live them, at our full potential. We choose to accept our reality as others have told us it has to be.
Wake up!
We don’t have to do this to ourselves – none of us do. We have a choice. We don’t have to be complacent. We don’t have to fall into line. Why not stir things up a bit and live by better rules?
It’s time to remind yourself of a few key truths – right now and every morning hereafter: 12 Things…
10 natural remedies using honey
From wound salve and cough syrup to dandruff cure, honey comes to the rescue to solve a variety of body issues.
12 Quiet Rituals of Enormously Successful Humans
The result of enormous success is often pretty noisy – lots of people talking, writing and sharing stories about it. The actual process of achieving enormous success, on the other hand, is far more discreet. But it’s this process that happens quietly, behind-the-scenes, that makes all the difference in the world.
HERE are twelve things the most successful people we know do quietly and diligently.