Lars Toomre

Some Personal Thoughts, Observations and Trivia

Reality

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Learn To Go With The Flow

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Father of Taoism

Albert Einstein on Mathematics and Reality

Insofar as the laws of mathematics are certain, they do not refer to reality, and insofar as the refer to reality, they are not certain.

Reality and Opinion of Other People

Blonde sitting and pondering

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Best-selling author and success coach

Love Is A Verb

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Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.

Reactive people make it [love] a feeling. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does not describe the reality. If our feelings control our actions, it is becasue we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Be In Truth What We Appear To Be

Blonde Mary in November 2008

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Decisions In An Interdependent Reality

How much negative energy is typically expended when people try to solve problems or make decisions in an interdependent reality? How much time is spent in confessing other people's sins, politicking, rivalry, interpersonal conflict, protecting one's backside, masterminding, and second guessing? It's like trying to drive down the road with one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake!

You Can Sometimes Create A Reality

Reality is above all else a variable and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

Reality Contains Unparalleled Beauties

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Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Famous for her 1930's New York City photographs of working class communities

The Reality of Principles

The reality of principles or natural laws becomes obvious to anyone who thinks deeply and examines the cycles of social history. These principles surface time and time again, and the degree to which people in society recognize and live in harmony with them moves them toward either survival and stability or disintegration and destruction. The principles are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. The principles are fairness, integrity, honesty, human dignity, service, quality or excellence, potential, growth, patience, nurturance, and encouragement.