Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Education

  • 21 Habits of Happy People – Day 2~ Choose Your Friends Wisely

    First word: April 19, 2014 at 7:50pm Day two of 21 habits of happy people has taken almost a full month to complete. How do I remain mindful, living in the present day, not focusing on the past or the future? How can you write around a single quote and remain mindful? We have four words…

  • Monday Morning Quote de la Dia – Cinco de Mayo

      Life doesn’t come with guarantees. Just know that smiling will brighten your face, laughter will brighten your day, and good people, friends and family will make your life great… Happy Monday morning… Cinco de Mayo… drive SOBER and safe… and be mindful of the motorcycle on the road with you.       Related…

  • Quote of the Day 24APR 2014 – Violent

      “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a…

  • 21 Days of Happy Habits ~ Day 1 – Appreciate Life

    “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with”. Mark Twain It’s good to be alive. I’ve written that a lot in recent years. Every single morning I wake up after a good night sleep I look in the mirror and realize how lucky I am to be here,…

  • Mindful Quote(s) of the Day 07APR 2014 – Suffering

    “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he…

  • Mindful Quote of the Day 27MAR 2014 ~ Groundlessness

    Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there’s a fundamental groundlessness. It’s there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never…

  • Happiness Quote of the Day 21 March 2014 – Mental Habits

    We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we’re unable to live fully and…

  • An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

    Hello world… I take great pride in the accomplishment of keeping politics away from my facebook. Sometimes I just need to vent and hope and hope and hope, some people… some of my friends, will sit down and learn for themselves all of contemporary US history and not what you are told (repeatedly) by revisionists,…

  • Q/A of the Day ~ How Can You Create a Universe From Nothing?

    “How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe it is negative because of gravity. Gravity has negative energy. When you add the two together what do you get? Zero, so it takes no…

  • Quote of the Day 08 March 2014 – New Religion

                            “First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless, And coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy was hatless, The…