May 2012
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Lists&Things I Like
I am a lister, I write lists, lots of them. I write to do lists that include such banal points as ‘eat dinner’, I write lists of PDOs (personal development objectives), books I want to read, exercises I should do, places I want to go, things I want to do before I am thirty. Ironically I am even writing a list about writing lists.
There is however, one list I have probably never made,...
April 2012
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Things I would like to do
There are so many things I would like to do such as yoga, pilates, buy more books, buy more gifts and so forth. I don’t like money I have no desire to possess heaps of it, but I hate how not having it really restricts you from the stuff you want to do.
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If poverty is the customary material penalty for low status, then neglect and...
– Alain De Botton, Status Anxiety, Snobbery
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
– Rumi (via lazyyogi)
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Attempting Meditation
Today I attempted to meditate, I thought I would do my first session for ten minutes. I soon realised that meditating for ten minutes as a first attempt is ambitious to say the least.
I struggled with focusing on the here and now, on my breathing and keeping my mind clear. I found thoughts regarding the past, concerns about the future creeping into my conciousness polluting my present.
I decided...
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