Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Quote of the Day 07 October 2013 – Learning How to Give

    Helping others entails learning how you are helped. In order to heal others, you must learn to heal yourself. Learning how to give to yourself is part of learning how to give to others. If you are stingy with yourself, you will be stingy with others. When you understand how everything is given to you,…

  • Vincent Van Gogh Said What?

    I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. ~ Vincent Van Gogh Related articles New Vincent van Gogh painting confirmed to be authentic after years of research The Secret Museum: Van Gogh’s Never-Before-Seen Sketchbooks VIDEO: New Vincent Van Gogh painting identified A Van Gogh Mission VVG in gaie Paree…

  • Quote of the Day 06 October 2013 ~ Opening Your Heart

    Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they’re special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person and only attracts more love in your life. ~ Amy Poehler Today’s quote of the day is because I slept through…

  • IN WHAT YEAR was “under god” added to ‘The Pledge Of Allegiance’?

    I pledge allegiance to the FLAG(S) of the DIVIDED States of America and to the Republic for which it USED TO stand for, one nation, HELD HOSTAGE, with LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME. This might as well be the pledge of allegiance since it is just as accurate as what false patriots think it is…

  • Quote of the Day 05 October 2013 ~ Focused Presence

    If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listen to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment… which is complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a bridge to another…

  • Quote of the Day 04 October 2013 ~ Peaceful Frame of Mind

      Laughter is a pleasant sound, it spreads joy all around Whether you’re young or old, laughter can be like Magic to our souls, whenever we’re feeling sad Laughter can sustain us so that things don’t seem Quite so bad, if we give into laughter, it can be like A cure for something that seems impossible…

  • Quote of the Day 03 October 2013 – I Am Never Alone

    I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was…

  • Quote of the Day – 02 October 2013 ~ The Easy Way

    We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life; not in avoiding pain, but in being pain when…

  • Quote of the Day 30 September 2013 ~ You Are Alive

    “When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive.” ~ Chief Seattle About the chief: Chief Seattle (an Anglicization of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si’ahl, equivalent…

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