--JOSEPH ADDISON :
If the mind is free from the chains of crass materialism, dogmatism, superstition and hallucination, it will attain peace. Peace of mind is not only our greatest blessing but our ultimate bliss.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Alex P. Vidal (Mind)
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
--JOSEPH ADDISON :
If the mind is free from the chains of crass materialism, dogmatism, superstition and hallucination, it will attain peace. Peace of mind is not only our greatest blessing but our ultimate bliss.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
--JOSEPH ADDISON :
If the mind is free from the chains of crass materialism, dogmatism, superstition and hallucination, it will attain peace. Peace of mind is not only our greatest blessing but our ultimate bliss.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
Alex P. Vidal Quotes (Knowledge)
There is no knowledge that is not power.
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON :
If we know nothing, read nothing, write nothing and say nothing, we become nothing. If we have knowledge, we can think and decide logically; we can protect our loved ones from intellectual peacocks; we can recite our bill of rights; we can thwart the mystics and outwit the cynics.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON :
If we know nothing, read nothing, write nothing and say nothing, we become nothing. If we have knowledge, we can think and decide logically; we can protect our loved ones from intellectual peacocks; we can recite our bill of rights; we can thwart the mystics and outwit the cynics.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
Alex P. Vidal Quotes (Problem Solving)
We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
--ALBERT EINSTEIN :
Our brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm known to exist. In deep thinking, either we create a problem or solve one. We must explore the space between our ears. It is the strangest but the most powerful territory in the world.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
--ALBERT EINSTEIN :
Our brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm known to exist. In deep thinking, either we create a problem or solve one. We must explore the space between our ears. It is the strangest but the most powerful territory in the world.
--ALEX P. VIDAL
If I want to...on Poe, Roxas, Duterte, Binay, Santiago
"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."
Gerald Jampolsky
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Until our next president is elected in May 2016, we continue to be a divided nation.
The gaping wounds of hostility and conflict will continue to exacerbate and won't heal for a while, because of cascading passion and emotional bickering brought by heated partisan politics.
Some friendships will suffer--or have already suffered--from mortal blows and may never be repaired again.
Even family members have their own share of hellish moments because they have their respective bets for certain elective positions--the father for Vice President Jejomar Binay because of fraternity ties; the mother for Sec. Mar Roxas because of business attachment; and daughter and son for Grace Poe because of Eat Bulaga and Heart Evangelista.
CHANGE
We can't change the reputation of our leaders and the circumstances that made them famous and infamous--what and where they are now in the periphery of political hierarchy.
But we can change the way we think, how we behave, and how to deal with these leaders or aspirants for higher public office, if given the opportunity to go along with any of them in a real or imagined world.
For instance, if I saunter in the lairs of the underworld, the beasts and the cannibals, I will ask Rodrigo Duterte to accompany me.
If I want to personally meet showbiz characters, ask autograph of Susan Roces, gyrate on noontime shows with Tito, Vic an Joey, and get to know more about sob stories involving foundlings, I want Grace Poe to be on my side.
FREE
If I want to watch free movies in the country's premier city and enjoy other pelf and privileges, dabble in construction business, corner rich contracts without the benefit of a bidding process, enlist as adult commander in the Boys Scouts of the Philippines, and open more than a dozen savings accounts, I will befriend Jejomar Binay.
If I want to have a "selfie" with Korina Sanchez without having to form a beeline in a Quezon City mansion and learn Economics 101, I will ask Mar Roxas to be my guidance counselor.
If I want to meet Superman, Spiderman, Bionicman, Batman and Robin, Wonderwoman, join the Star Wars, and to have a Close Encounter with the Third Kind, I will stay beside Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
After all we are in a free world.
Gerald Jampolsky
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Until our next president is elected in May 2016, we continue to be a divided nation.
The gaping wounds of hostility and conflict will continue to exacerbate and won't heal for a while, because of cascading passion and emotional bickering brought by heated partisan politics.
Some friendships will suffer--or have already suffered--from mortal blows and may never be repaired again.
Even family members have their own share of hellish moments because they have their respective bets for certain elective positions--the father for Vice President Jejomar Binay because of fraternity ties; the mother for Sec. Mar Roxas because of business attachment; and daughter and son for Grace Poe because of Eat Bulaga and Heart Evangelista.
CHANGE
We can't change the reputation of our leaders and the circumstances that made them famous and infamous--what and where they are now in the periphery of political hierarchy.
But we can change the way we think, how we behave, and how to deal with these leaders or aspirants for higher public office, if given the opportunity to go along with any of them in a real or imagined world.
For instance, if I saunter in the lairs of the underworld, the beasts and the cannibals, I will ask Rodrigo Duterte to accompany me.
If I want to personally meet showbiz characters, ask autograph of Susan Roces, gyrate on noontime shows with Tito, Vic an Joey, and get to know more about sob stories involving foundlings, I want Grace Poe to be on my side.
FREE
If I want to watch free movies in the country's premier city and enjoy other pelf and privileges, dabble in construction business, corner rich contracts without the benefit of a bidding process, enlist as adult commander in the Boys Scouts of the Philippines, and open more than a dozen savings accounts, I will befriend Jejomar Binay.
If I want to have a "selfie" with Korina Sanchez without having to form a beeline in a Quezon City mansion and learn Economics 101, I will ask Mar Roxas to be my guidance counselor.
If I want to meet Superman, Spiderman, Bionicman, Batman and Robin, Wonderwoman, join the Star Wars, and to have a Close Encounter with the Third Kind, I will stay beside Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
After all we are in a free world.
Ironies
Ironies
draw the mind free of habitual
animal ease. Sough of tides in the heart,
massive and moony, is not our sound
But hope and despair together
bring tears to face, are a human ground,
death mask and comic, such speech
as hero and commoner device, makes sense
contrive our face. To expunge
either, is to cast snares for the
ghost a glancing heart makes
along a ground, and airy goes its way. (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)
draw the mind free of habitual
animal ease. Sough of tides in the heart,
massive and moony, is not our sound
But hope and despair together
bring tears to face, are a human ground,
death mask and comic, such speech
as hero and commoner device, makes sense
contrive our face. To expunge
either, is to cast snares for the
ghost a glancing heart makes
along a ground, and airy goes its way. (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)
Consolation
Listen
if now and then
you hear the dead
muttering like ashes
creaking like empty
rockers on porches
filling you in filling you in
like winds in empty
branches like stars
in wintry trees
so far
so good
you've mastered finally
one foreign tongue (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)
if now and then
you hear the dead
muttering like ashes
creaking like empty
rockers on porches
filling you in filling you in
like winds in empty
branches like stars
in wintry trees
so far
so good
you've mastered finally
one foreign tongue (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)
Alex P. Vidal Quotes (Disrespect, Hatred)
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, 'cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
-- WILL SMITH :
It's written in the stars that we can't please everyone. Even our fingers are not even. Those who don't want us to go up normally won't stop in their efforts to pull us down. Instead of hating back our detractors, let's kill them with kindness and ask God to bless and heal them.
-- ALEX P. VIDAL
-- WILL SMITH :
It's written in the stars that we can't please everyone. Even our fingers are not even. Those who don't want us to go up normally won't stop in their efforts to pull us down. Instead of hating back our detractors, let's kill them with kindness and ask God to bless and heal them.
-- ALEX P. VIDAL
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