December 2011
13 posts
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a...
“There are many who see no prospects before them in life. Does that mean that the world, the universe, is so poor that it cannot provide for all their need? There is abundance, but by thinking continually that there is no way out of it, a person becomes fixed in his thoughts and brings about despair.
When man is thinking or feeling, he is at the same time emitting what he thinks or feels as...
“…What we want to say is that we have no enemies…we are all part of...”
– Ram Das (via Practice Good)
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,...”
– –– His Holiness the Dalai Lama –– The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
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“The best practice one can make is to speak with oneself, with one’s own...”
– VOLUME XIII - 17
“Intelligence is not a substitute for the critical work of diplomats on the...”
– America’s Real Iran Problem - NYTimes.com
“The rest of us, it turns out, constitute the nation’s fastest-growing religious...”
– Americans and God - NYTimes.com
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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