Quote - Believing Alice

Here's an interesting dialogue from Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass

"I can't believe that" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying,"she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was you age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"

I'm not going to comment this any further, I'll let it to you to believe what you will. Just remember that beliefs influence our behaviors, motivates us (or discourage us) and gives stability to our lives a good or bad ways. But beliefs can be changed.

Believing today is going to be a great day would be a good start!

Normality: From Paulo Coelho's Blog

Here a great post from Paulo Coelho's Blog

A list of traits for normality. It's quite an eye opening post. I find myself in may of those situations, some of which I'm trying to correct others which I'd like to get away from.

Here only a few traits out of the 47 he identifies.


1] Anything that makes us forget our true identity and our dreams and makes us only work to produce and reproduce.

2] Making rules for a war (the Geneva Convention).

3] Spending years at university and then not being able to find a job.

4] Working from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon at something that does not give us the least pleasure, so that we can retire after 30 years.

5] Retiring only to discover that we have no more energy to enjoy life, and then dying of boredom after a few years.

Click here to visit his blog for the complete list.


  

Video: Derren Brown - Miracles for Sale

Here's a very interesting video by Derren Brown, a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic (More on Wikipedia). What's interesting about Derren is that even if he performs mind reading feats, he claims that there are no psychic powers involves. He says his acts are done only through magic tricks, suggestion, psychology and misdirection.

In this video Derren sets out on a journey to expose the fraud of faith healers. He picks a regular person and trains him to become a faith healer who can cure people through the power of God.

The video is quite long, a little over an hour, but is worth watching as he unveils how those healing scams to which people donate millions and millions of dollars.

This goes a long way to show that what we see, hear and feel is not always what it seems.

Quote - Albert Einstein - Riding a Bicycle

I love this one. I like to make comparisons between life and simple things. As I did in my Life's a Marathon blog post. Which by the way the part 2 is coming real soon!

And on top of being a nice life comparison this one comes from my old buddy Al a.k.a Albert.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

Keep trying new stuff, going forward. Here's an excerpt from Paolo Coelho's blog :

"To do something that sometimes scares you but you should do because you may like or you may not like."

Click here to read his whole story.