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An excerpt that made particular sense to me: “Paradoxically, when you accept things as they are in this moment (including yourself), you put yourself in the most powerful position to create change.”
This ties into a book I’ve been busy with lately, the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. It also teaches to come into the moment, be happy NOW. That feels like you would just sit around feeling blissful, losing your ambition. Or at least, that’s what I struggled with. But in fact, it doesn’t have to be that way. So you can feel good just, well, feeling good, and trust in the fact that from that feeling will flow the changes to improve your life even more.
“- Tip: If you are finding something particularly difficult to accept, accept that. If you get captured by strong emotions, accept that. Accept yourself exactly as you are.”
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From short-funny-stories.com:
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.
“Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.”
One student replied:
“You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building.”
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn’t make up his mind which to use.
On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
“Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer.”
“Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper’s shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper.”
“But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g).”
“Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up.”
“If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building.”
“But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor’s door and say to him ‘If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper’.”
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.
This nifty creation allows you to read books in the format of PowerPoint presentations on an interface that looks like Windows. One can only marvel at the creativity of laziness 
Look for the six differences in these contemplative scenes - I particularly like how the image just changes when you click instead of drawing a conspicuous circle over it. Another relaxing thing about is that there is no time constraint, and no penalties for clicking around. So if you want to move on to the next picture, just click around randomly
