Story dictates “the images in their minds, the feelings in their hearts.” Jonathan Gottschall http://t.co/c2J1VHv3qP pic.twitter.com/ukWYxU9OfN
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2013
Three via @mikhaill: the role of sleep, the science of storytelling, and Mandela, the movie http://t.co/CVdzHH53pY
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2013
Mandela “completely conformed to the ancient Jewish saying: ‘Who is a hero? He who turns his hater into his lover.’” http://t.co/Tctq8qnO6l
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2013
Mandela: The Movie – Gush Shalom – Israeli Peace Bloc http://t.co/Tctq8qnO6l Uri Avnery
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2013
“Judge not …” Hold no view. Just be—being always aware of being—and do. But do only what lets you be and let be. Let there be peace on Earth
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 25, 2013
Peace on Earth http://t.co/VulX58KW1E “Anyone who thinks soldiers give their lives for their country is mistaken …” (unedited)
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 24, 2013
Peace on Earth http://t.co/JJHtaCRJL2 “Anyone who thinks soldiers give their lives for their country is mistaken …” pic.twitter.com/QY2ijgFb7S
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 24, 2013
moral economy: one that preserves social values, human dignity and ecological health while ensuring economic security http://t.co/q6Fg5bMs96
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 24, 2013
“The stories we tell about the history and future of [the] economy are rooted in competing moral narratives.” http://t.co/q6Fg5bMs96 #bcpoli
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 24, 2013
“Such utterances were felt to be profoundly subversive, and respectable people ignored them.” Aldous Huxley http://t.co/1yHAE6EipW
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 23, 2013
Aldous Huxley said a sutra affirms that “the truth was never preached by the Buddha, seeing that you have to realize it within yourself.”
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 23, 2013
Bush, Vannevar [vuh-NEE-ver] … http://t.co/hPE2WuUWmr bio with links: http://t.co/39215EApvs
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 23, 2013
Walter Isaacson on Stewart Brand and "The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer" on http://t.co/9i634PNzN8 http://t.co/xuHNqQ3Jcq
— John Brockman (@edge) December 22, 2013
“Why do you prate of God? Whatever you say of God is untrue.” Meister Eckhart, cited by Aldous Huxley https://t.co/ZpE47jZ56u
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 21, 2013
“Only choiceless awareness can lead to nonduality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love.” Huxley
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 21, 2013
Annual potential “for at least 12.8 million strip searches … if procedures are followed.” https://t.co/ZmcrFllLXF http://t.co/pDgUh4T4ui
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 21, 2013
Woman Endures 6 Hrs of Multiple, Redundant, Increasingly Invasive Body Searches, Gets Charged $5,000 For Them http://t.co/BOhxptTqoH
— Common Dreams (@commondreams) December 20, 2013
Folha now prints actual, original letter from Snowden in English, which any journalist reporting on this should read http://t.co/Ea8ctu41hu
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 17, 2013
“Of course poverty is an issue that concerns me.” James Moore, a BC MP http://t.co/JVleleMyIL his expense allowance alone puts him in the 1%
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 18, 2013
This gaffe has legs! — Stephen Hume: Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? Yes, it is. @VancouverSun http://t.co/RLCugtYpvj
— Jon Woodward (@ctv_jon) December 18, 2013
“A Jew is not an Israeli. And an Israeli is not necessarily a Jew.” Elliot Sperber http://t.co/KT4cGy9a5R pic.twitter.com/7PlSy5tYKf
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 18, 2013
“Employers who can destroy the environment without care are often the ones who can destroy lives without care.” Kevin Bales/Free the Slaves
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 18, 2013
Climate change and slavery: the perfect storm? http://t.co/nbDGC7DzJ6 via @UnitarianUCV, @guardian shock doctrine/disaster capitalism #agw
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 18, 2013
'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law http://t.co/sQmSlPrwuZ
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills http://t.co/aOrWsEzENM via @guardian
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
“The protesters will probably finish up working for multinationals and dying of modern diseases. I hope that I am wrong about that.” Mujica
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
Dwell on the sense of “I am” to still and clear the mind. And let that reveal the timeless source of conscious being. http://t.co/mBEtLGuz0y
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
“… the remarkable human talent for perceiving meaning where there is none. Known as apophenia or pareidolia …” http://t.co/gcJMe3vSO9
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
“Wasteful and destructive as feeding grain to livestock is, ranching appears to be even worse.” George Monbiot http://t.co/z7Cn8rmVQE
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 16, 2013
“The trouble with democracy was that it gave power to lightweights such as Churchill.” David Runciman https://t.co/S0ajHMGCrC
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 14, 2013
“They try to sell things which none of us would buy in our right mind; so they keep us in our wrong mind.” http://t.co/mrYpPsBnQK #marketing
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 14, 2013
“You have to experience duality for a long time until you see it’s not there.” Thomas Merton http://t.co/mrYpPsBnQK last paragraph
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 14, 2013
New AHA guidelines on statins “are an egregious example of much that is wrong with medicine today.” http://t.co/ieS0ElWnat
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 11, 2013
You are not your story. No one is. No one can say who or what they really are. Only that they are. Just like you. http://t.co/mBEtLGuz0y
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 11, 2013
All we know is stories, some helpful, some not. None are reality. Reality is not a story. Reality is what is, and it’s beyond words.
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 11, 2013
consigliere/consiglieri [kawn-see-LYE-re/ree] … singular/plural, internal adviser(s) to an organization’s leader http://t.co/KxklDGiVL1
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 9, 2013
“Canada’s ambassador called Pinochet’s opponents ‘the riff-raff of the Latin American left.’ I took a different view. http://t.co/bmTSbMTST6
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 8, 2013
Radio caller who faked name to criticize NDP candidate now a UBC governor http://t.co/WfkwI8q84W #bcpoli #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/TFhEzW1YML
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 7, 2013
artefact/artifact … BrE/AmE http://t.co/AU2EIZtVX2
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 7, 2013
Peter Higgs says the name #theGodparticle “reinforces confused thinking in the heads of people who are already thinking in a confused way.”
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 7, 2013
“I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.” Peter Higgs http://t.co/6Z4MWwhT1f
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 7, 2013
Vancouver billboard ad rejected. Centre for Inquiry (cficanada.ca) “looking at options.” http://t.co/cVRsIorziq pic.twitter.com/pyxpnTRXpo
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 7, 2013
“The term that best describes me now is ‘secular humanist.’” Charles Schulz (Peanuts, etc., interview, 1995) http://t.co/kvYjCvXzIf
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 6, 2013
The truth of what is cannot be told. You cannot really say what you are. But you can tell that you are. Go with that. http://t.co/mBEtLGuz0y
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 5, 2013
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. / The name that can be named is not the eternal name. /
— Daily Tao Te Ching (@dailyTaoTeChing) October 29, 2013
Chomsky: “The commons are the environment … If they’re privately owned, they’re going to be destroyed for profit.” http://t.co/fME1kwRfVo
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 4, 2013
“Both formerly and now, it is only dukkha that I describe, and the cessation of dukkha.” https://t.co/lFqis25ckb.
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 4, 2013
Suffering (dukkha) arises with the delusion in any being that there is some other being, a separate being. http://t.co/hYIiDYLnEJ
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 4, 2013
“On climate, Canada is a rogue state.” Mark Jaccard, ex-Harper appointee http://t.co/FieVkJev1O
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 3, 2013
Former Harper adviser blasts Keystone XL support http://t.co/1I6dAl1x8w
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 3, 2013
.@b0undless took the art of the opening pregame montage to another level last night. RIP HNIC. http://t.co/oDQhw6gqwH
— Douglas Haddow (@DouglasHaddow) December 2, 2013
“To work at Amazon is to spend your days at the coalface of consumerism.” http://t.co/WVVFpc657I This is too much. Time to organize.
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 2, 2013
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