Grace Notes

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What is a Seeker?

“To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.” - Walker Percy Join Jason Silva as he f...

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San Francisco & Denver based director, designer, and animator

Two Chips animation by Adam Patch

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Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men* as well as the reality around them; for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity of both experience and thought. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt 

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In all of it, there’s one thing I can tell you I learned to be true: you won’t get your happy ending until you step out of your comfort zone. Trust me, it’s where life begins…. My career came alive when I left go of the world definition of professional success and started pursuing my own.”

https://blog.linkedin.com/2012/11/08/my-career-love-story-when-comfort-ends-life-begins

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How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love

Insights from seven thinkers who have contemplated the art of finding your purpose and turning it into work.

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http://themetapicture.com/if-this-video-doesnt-convince-you/

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When you don’t follow your dream or passion, then what you work for will seem like a cage, albeit a golden one. It will result in being frustrated, listless, and completely devoid of a purpose.... Don’t...compromise on what you love to do. What you excel in will definitely bring you that every prosperity and security you need. Maybe the start would be small, but as one achieves perfection...everything else will follow.

G.M. Rao

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The rise of Donald Trump is an American tragedy serving as a cautionary tale of what we are becoming as a society and the need to rediscover true American values before they are gone forever.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/07/24/donald-trump-and-the-decline-of-american-character-a-cautionary-tale/#582108741557

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The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

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“Someday, you will miss today.”

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Advice from some old people

We have one time on this earth. Don’t wake up and realize that you are 60 years old and haven’t done the things you dreamed about.

Words of wisdom

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Very Good Advice From Bill Watterson (Creator of Calvin and Hobbes) in Comic Strip Form by Gavin Aung Than of Zen Pencils. See link below to read the full comic strip. 

http://slate.me/1fuzmcl

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You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of helping people navigate toward the future. We need a litany, a rosary, a sutra, a mantra, a war chant for our victories. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Rebecca Solnit 

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Adele Medley - Casual Cover - Ronan Scolard & Glenn Murphy

Ronan Scolard and Glenn Murphy threw together some of Adele's most well known songs to mark her visit to Ireland as part of her world tour.

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Such beautiful craftsmanship