We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton (via bright-sided)
We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants. And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.
The economy of the last century was primarily based on natural resources, industrial machines and manual labor. Many of these resources were zero-sum and controlled by companies. If someone else had an oil field, then you did not. There were only so many oil fields, and only so much wealth could be created from them.
Today’s economy is very different. It is based primarily on knowledge and ideas — resources that are renewable and available to everyone. Unlike oil fields, someone else knowing something doesn’t prevent you from knowing it, too. In fact, the more people who know something, the better educated and trained we all are, the more productive we become, and the better off everyone in our nation can be.
This can change everything. In a knowledge economy, the most important resources are the talented people we educate and attract to our country. A knowledge economy can scale further, create better jobs and provide a higher quality of living for everyone in our nation.
To lead the world in this new economy, we need the most talented and hardest-working people. We need to train and attract the best.
Thoughtful, necessary Washington Post op-ed on the knowledge economy and immigration reform by Mark Zuckerberg. (via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
Inderpal Wig: It's a sad day to be a "Sikh" - So I Pray.
There’ll be as many definitions of a Sikh as the number of people you ask. Sadly, that’s the truth. For me though, regardless of form or structure, the only two lessons I’ve learned and kept close to my heart and soul about being Sikh is that it means
1. You’re a student of life, and
2….
The new kings
Shades of brown
(via lolopetitpot)
I go about everyday as a student of life, learning from others and my surroundings. I believe in this concept of we are one, I see ourselves as energy which might’ve come from a singular source some like to theorize as god, the big bang theory or whatever it might be it doesn’t really matter right now in my existence nor do I think it ever will but one thing I am learning is you and I are very much alike than different.
The old world philosophies tried to touch upon certain topics such as “energy” in their own ways during their times, I’m not too sure about those who believe in “preserving” the past or how something was said as a ritual. Natural progression has been to add to the knowledge as we see as the truth or we change it. The spiritual teachings, western philosophy and now quantum physics all try to explore what it means to be us, here.
As the human consciousness matures I believe there is a moral compass and it should be applied in helping set direction as we define our paths when observing or practicing belief systems.
My two cents on this video: Modern science just like modern religion, a powerful institution which believes in the profit not the truth. Hippy or not, you’re still an idiot if you’re not questioning everything. #OBEY
Creative spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds
Albert Einstein
Respect…
respecting difference within difference. trying to be right, when ‘right’ is entirely subjective.
intersection
when i’m feeling alien i escape to the internets
you don’t get it, i mean the intersects
that interconnect the intellects so let’s intersect
this inner sec, thats been occupying me lately how do i
arrange this dinner set so you feel more homely.
you wakey wakey? we bakey bakey
but that’s just the icing on the cake see, we just bored
doing the masterbation motion while wondering what’s with all this commotion commotion
i know it’s rough but sometimes its nice to have on some lotion, look.
fuck the world, and i came on your facebook.. and you ‘Liked it
you liked it, you really really liked it
i wear black tuxedo, black tuxedo,
sometimes i’m really neet-o.
maybe it’s just the weed though
danny devito
fat hairy motherfucker in a speedo!
probably make your needle drop
or maybe that’s just the gamer talk, the lamer talk
tea bag a mosquito while drinking a Mojito
we can be trouble bro leave it to the
1 double 3 7 flow. and we know, like ‘google it know
like you know like fast like the internet yo.
stupid is stupid go, this is art? ha-ha this is
me doing this heartless, you care-bear like
double rainbow tight, you like what does it mean
right, maybe it’s just time to quit, nightie night.
image seems to be what you really likey like.
you liked it, you really really liked it
random thoughts : Self oppression
Self oppression, you start to notice it when you go through a conscious depression.
Gotta finish it off now!!
my first video on the internet, testing out new camera and microphone.
peanuts.
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