Year: 2005
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Meditation
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace and blessedness itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.Dogen, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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Temperature Guide
TemperatureWhat others doWhat Minnesotans do+60New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.Minnesotans plant gardens.+50Californians shiver uncontrollably.Minnesotans sunbathe.+40Italian cars won’t start.Minnesotans drive with the windows down.+32Distilled water freezes.Minnehaha Creek water gets thicker.+20Floridians wear coats, gloves & wool hats.Minnesotans throw on a t-shirt.+15Californians begin to evacuate the state.Minnesotans go swimming.ZeroNew York landlords finally turn up the heatMinnesotans…
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Bravado
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.Edmund Burke
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Talk about spoiled
With a $225 million paycheck, a gal gets used to a little special treatment. So when OPRAH WINFREY was denied entry to the Hermés store in Paris 15 minutes after closing time, the daytime queen got peeved. The ultra-luxury retailer later apologized for snubbing “Mme. Oprah,” saying the store was setting up a “private public…
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Duty
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty.Mark Twain
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Memory Bank
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly applied, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in…