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This is a very powerful affirmation to use – try it for 7 days . When I say try it, I mean that each time you go to bed, ‘read’ it over in your mind. Do the same each morning whilst shaving, making breakfast or going about your early morning tasks. You should also use it each time a negative...

Simply, is it possible for one to forget oneself? Don’t just say yes or no.Look deep, inside of yourself .We really don't know what it means ,do we? . The Bible , sacred books say so-and-so, but all that is mere words, and words are not reality.I think what is important is for the mind to find...

Hi ,got a new laptop Lenovo, using Windows XP. Works fine ,but doesn't show any Pictures /photographs.If I want to check some pictures of catamarans all I get is little squares - it goes the same for pictures of the nude ladies..Do I have to download some software ? Same thing with DVD ,can't...

I wonder why we ask questions. Why do we depend on others, whether it be a psychologist, a person who is called a priest, a teacher, or from some guru? Why? Is it that all of us are so accustomed to be guided? We seek help from others, we want guidelines, we want to be told what to do, we want...

A man who is imprisoned in a jail needs to be free, doesn't he? He is trapped in the jail and he knows that the people outside are free. You are all in prison and you have heard about...

Most of us have developed intellectual capacities - so-called intellectual capacities, which are not really intellectual capacities at all - we read so many books, filled with what other people have said, their many theories and ideas. We think we are very intellectual if we can quote...

You don’t want to kill animals for your stomach, but you do not mind supporting governments that are organized to kill. Your thought please.

This is from "China Daily" a Chinese news paper ( in English) that you can can get anywhere in China and/or on the line. Insights: Democracy and Human Rights Living without freedom in China The hardest place to understand what the lack of freedom means is China, which is nothing like the...

If you want to discover whether what I say is true, you must judge impersonally, that is, put aside your personal likes and dislikes, your personal beliefs, you are trying to seek the understanding of the significance of the whole of life, not merely...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind. By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought...

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How can a so-called intelligent species become aware of the potentially disastrous impact it is having on its environment, and thence the possible extinction of itself, and then continue (and often increase) doing the very things that cause the problem? Where has the sense of the...

Why are many accidental deaths referred to as "instantaneous" when most technology used in capital punishment requires seconds, if not minutes, to kill a person?

How is it that humanists/atheists claim religion is the major cause of cruelty, war and oppression when the 20th Century (surely the most irreligious century ever) hit the jackpot on all three ?

History shows that all systems fail, and all governments and economies eventually fail. If so, then what is Plan B in the current situation in Canada ?

Why do government leaders, members of parliament, and diplomatic personnel need immunity against prosecution? What proportion of parliamentarians has been indicted or convicted for offences? Who holds this information?

The good is not the `respectable'. The respectable man can never know what is good. Most of us are respectable and therefore we do not know what it is to be good. Moral education can only come, not with the cultivation of respectability, but with the awakening of love. But we do not...

What happen to Curiosity ; haven't seen here in a forum(s) for some time now. Hope she's fine.

Just wondered ,can you pick up the "Question period " on the line ?

This morning, the sea was like a lake or an enormous river without a ripple, and so calm that you could see the reflections of the stars so early in the morning. The dawn had not yet come, and so the stars, and the reflection of the cliff, and the distant lights of the town, were there on the...