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How to React to Criticism
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http://www.theroadtoceo.com/ExpertPerformance/Criticism.html

Do you make the most of criticism? Or do you overreact, missing out on any opportunity to benefit from the feedback?

The Greatest Grandeur -- Pattiann Rogers

The Greatest Grandeur

Some say it's in the reptilian dance
of the purple-tongued sand goanna,
for there the magnificent translation
of tenacity into bone and grace occurs.

And some declare it to be an expansive
desert-solid rust-orange rock
like dusk captured on earth in stone-
simply for the perfect contrast it provides
to the blue-grey ridge of rain
in the distant hills.

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follow the instructions.

cue in music from dueling banjos...

http://tithenai.tumblr.com/post/3215186237/two-churches-located-across-t...

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(Whether or not you agree partially or totally, disagree partially or totally, David does give one pause...)

Pundit Under Protest
By DAVID BROOKS

I want to wrap you in poems
take you away from death's door
you keep bringing me to

crying in the distance

I walkabout
the desert of my denial,
your heart beating inside mine,

if you leave,
I'll never come back.

you ramble with his poetry
book after book
crying with Orbison and Lang
the touch that caressed
you deep in the psyche of
your human jungle

you its prey,

dirty dishes, half-smoked
cigarettes, wine-stained sheets,
the tenderness
of a poem,
escaping...

don't bother me just now,
I'm not finished reading
my epitaph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv7S8v3rM-U

May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May all beings be free from disease and the causes of disease.

May all beings be free from hunger and the causes of hunger.

May all beings be free from violence and the causes of violence.

May all beings be free from fear and the causes of fear.

May all beings be free from worry and the causes of worry.

May all beings be free from sadness and the causes of sadness.

May all beings be free from negative thinking
and the causes of negative thinking.

Retirement Joke!

A long-time retired, elderly couple were married for over sixty years. Although the man and women were not poor, they were far from being rich. They managed to get comfortably by skimping and watching their pennies.

The elderly man and women were both in excellent health for their age, mainly because of the wife's insistence on healthy foods and exercise since their sixties.

As fate would have it, the couples excellent health didn't help a bit when they went on a rare vacation and their plane crashed.

The Meaning of Life

A mendicant ascetic sat down where the Buddha
was instructing the monks. He listened attentively
until the Buddha finished the sermon and then
admonished the Awakened one to return to the
life of austerities. The Buddha listened in silence,
bowed respectfully, and left without saying a word.