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A PURPOSE FOR LIFE
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It is interesting to observe that people need a Purpose in their lives, as a motivation for living. The purpose can be real, or imagined. Whatever the purpose, when it ends or is taken away, so ends the life of the individual. Nikola Tesla, arguably the greatest inventor in history, if a good example of this principle.
“I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them, for years; thousands of them, for who can tell —
“But there was one pigeon, a beautiful bird, pure white with light gray tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I would know that pigeon anywhere.”
“No matter where I was that pigeon would find me; when I wanted her I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. She understood me and I understood her.
“Yes,” he replied to an unasked question. “Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. When she was ill I knew, and understood; she came to my room and I stayed beside her for days. I nursed her back to health. That pigeon was the joy of my life. If she needed me, nothing else mattered. As long as I had her, there was a purpose in my life.”
“Then one night as I was lying in my bed in the dark, solving problems, as usual, she flew in through the open window and stood on my desk. I knew she wanted me; she wanted to tell me something important so I got up and went to her.
“As I looked at her I knew she wanted to tell me — she was dying. And then, as I got her message, there came a light from her eyes — powerful beams of light.
“Yes,” he continued, again answering an unasked question, “it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory.
“When that pigeon died, something went out of my life. Up to that time I knew with a certainty that I would complete my work, no matter how ambitious my program, but when that something went out of my life I knew my life’s work was finished.”
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— From PRODIGAL GENIUS: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O’Neill:
YOUR DREAMS
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WE LIVE IN A UNIVERSE BUILT ON LAYERS OF LIES, FALSEHOODS, DELUSIONS AND ILLUSIONS. THE ONLY TRUTH IS YOU. YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR EMOTIONS, YOUR IMAGINATION, YOUR HOPES, YOUR LOVES and YOUR DREAMS.
~ Lawrence R. Spencer ~
LOVE IS SOMETHING
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“Love is something you and I must have.
We must have it because Our Spirit feeds upon it.
We must have it because without it We become weak and faint.
Without Love Our Self-esteem weakens.
Without it Our courage fails.
Without Love We can no longer look confidently at the world.
We turn inward and begin to feed upon Our Own personalities,
and little by little We destroy Our Selves.
With it We are Creative.
With it, and with it alone, We are able to sacrifice for Others.”
Chief Dan George
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Chief Dan George, OC (July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was also an author, poet, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. His best-known written work was “My Heart Soars. Born as Geswanouth Slahoot in North Vancouver,his English name was originally Dan Slaholt. The surname was changed to George when he entered a residential school at age 5. He worked at a number of different jobs, including as a longshoreman, construction worker, and school bus driver,and was band chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation from 1951–63.
ARTIST IMPRISONED IN EACH ONE OF US
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 –1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed anti-imperialism and went to prison for his pacifism during World War I. Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticized Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought”.