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Well, the online form of any yahoo group is certainly limited. However the quality of discussions at LIC in the last years is the best I ever witnessed in integral country. The radical diversity and... More »
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Re: Integral T-Shirt Contest
Bruce...OMG...LMAO...he is HOT!!! And I usually go for younger guys, but does he ever smile? Hey T...even if you do look it up, there is no guarantee that you will understand it...lol
Re: Integral T-Shirt Contest
Integral -if you had to look that word up, don't bother joining us! ((Mocking my own, recently pointed out defensiveness ;-) ))
I think I feel alright about my life for once
Posted on Oct 25th, 2009
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MandalaTree
MandalaTree
I was thinking, as I often do. I don't like to let the Tv think for me, it's kind of scary. But I was thinking. That's the most important part. I want to know that... More »
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What do you love?
Posted on Aug 11th, 2009
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margie
margie
It is not often that we give ourselves permission to love, or let alone talk about the things we love. These days it is hip and cool to be cynical and make fun of others... More »
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What do you expect from life?
Posted on Aug 11th, 2009
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Laurie
Laurie
From life? Nothing. From me during this life? I expect to learn from my experiences during this sojourn. I expect to integrate the knowledge that I gain with the life that I live.
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A discussion on the 'whole truth' and Integrity
Posted on Aug 10th, 2009
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CJ
CJ
At this summer's "Synergetics Sampler" in Oswego we had an interesting discussion on the 'whole truth' and Integrity. I put some of my own commentary about the profound significance and difficulty of the discipline of... More »
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Who around you do you consider wise?
Posted on Aug 10th, 2009
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Ted
Ted
I find wisdom and courage in everyone I meet. We all contain all things, and all experess all things, in some measure at some time. I find great wisdom in many books. I like Brian... More »
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facebook and twitter
Posted on Jul 24th, 2009
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Gaia Team
Gaia Team
Lovely Gaia people! It's Siona , here with a little mini-update. :) This doesn't greatly affect those of you who are already citizens of our online sphere, but if you're curious about the new little... More »
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Learning heals faster than time
Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009
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Shalini
Shalini
When I created this blog, I thought it will be a display of my poems as I was trying my hands on poems those days. You could guess that by its name too. But slowly... More »
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Mission Impossible?!
Posted on May 19th, 2009
by 
Albert
Albert
Timothy Garton Ash did it again. He adressed a new role for European foreign policy. And once again he is right. The missing link however remains a design, a perspective and and evolutionary understanding of... More »
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What choice would you like to make?
Posted on May 19th, 2009
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Satya-Seer
Satya-Seer
I would choose to make a choice to find the right lawyer in defense of Jeff, my partner. I would choose with integrity, a lawyer who has his Jeff's best interests as a gay man,... More »
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Answers For David
Posted on May 18th, 2009
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Nickeson
Nickeson
Introduction This blog post grew out of a discussion that began here on the Integral Archipelago pod. As the reader can see, David, who cultivated that chain of islands, asked me a series of questions.... More »
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A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
Source: The Pursuit of God
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Source: L. Infeld Quest, 1942.
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust
Alexander Hamilton (c.1756 - 1804)
Source: (Trinity Churchyard; New York, New York)
"Have I the right to keep my faith," said a student inquirer, "at the price of my intellectual integrity?" The answer would have to be that the "faith" which is kept at such a price is not faith at all.
All your life, you have heard yourself denounced; not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements. You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride. You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been called anti-social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads. You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose. You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite. You, who've created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber. You, who've kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter. You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.' Have you stopped to ask them: by what right? - by what code? - by what standard?
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: (Atlas 422-3)
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: (Atlas 935)
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge - Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve - Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worth of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: (Atlas 936)
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness -not pain or mindless self-indulgence - is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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