Live and Learn

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ninguém pode fazer por mim

Só há duas coisas na vida que ninguém pode fazer por mim: ir à casa de banho e aprender a viver.

Sufficiency of merit

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

— St.Augustine

If you knew you could not fail

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

— Robert H. Schuller

The reasonable man

A reasonable man is not rational. They are not equivalent, they are not synonymous. The rational man is never reasonable, the rational man tries to deny all that is irrational. The reasonable man accepts both. He accepts the paradox of life: he accepts the rational, he accepts the irrational; he sees no inconsistency in them. Hence he remains undivided; nothing can divide him. No division exists in his being and he sees no division everywhere. Life and death are one to him (…) He knows the oneness of life, hence he is not disturbed by any contradictions.

The man of Zen contains all contradictions. He is vast enough, he can contain contradictions. He enjoys paradoxes. He does not make life a problem. He looks at life as a mystery. He is not interested in solving it, he is interested only in living it – living it to the uttermost.

— Osho in Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen

Be the change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Benefit from illnesses

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

— Hippocrates

Scarcity vs. Post Scarcity

Scarcity

Scarcity (also called paucity) is the problem of infinite human needs and wants, in a world of finite resources. In other words, society does not have sufficient productive resources to fulfill those wants and needs. Alternatively, scarcity implies that not all of society’s goals can be pursued at the same time; trade-offs are made of one good against others. In an influential 1932 essay, Lionel Robbins defined economics as “the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.”

Post Scarcity

Post scarcity or post-scarcity describes a hypothetical form of economy or society, often explored in science fiction, in which things such as goods, services and information are free, or practically free. This would be due to an abundance of fundamental resources (matter, energy and intelligence), in conjunction with sophisticated automated systems capable of converting raw materials into finished goods, allowing manufacturing to be as easy as duplicating software.

Even without postulating new technologies, it is conceivable that already there exists enough energy, raw materials and biological resources to provide a comfortable lifestyle for every person on Earth. However even a hypothetical political or economic system able to achieve this lifestyle for everyone would generally not be termed a “post-scarcity society” unless the production of goods was sufficiently automated that virtually no labor was required by anyone. (It is usually assumed there would still be plenty of voluntary creative labor, such as a writer creating a novel or a software engineer working on open-source software.)

— Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Spiritual beings

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey.

— Teilhardt de Chardin

Democracy

We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of few, but we can’t have both.

— Louis Brandeis (US Supreme Court Justice)