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Comment on: Blog Post 'Love': "ONLY together - [as merchants of LOVE ] - can our starlight help us find our way - in this cosmic soup of choices and beauty." Janie Hedrick; Added by Michael Grove at 9:53 on September 15, 2013

Comment on: Blog Post 'SO BE [IT] ... posted by jenni': But there's still a calling... There's a force that's pulling me forward. I have to make a decision, what now must I become, must I ADD to all I have Created... I'm at the brink of construction NOW. I've had the Love and Guidance. I have to write. I'm a communicator of human experience." What's pushing me I know NOW is LOVE of Myself, which I lost a grip on during 5 yers of emotional trauma.. In time it comes indeed, the answer. Just don't be afraid. Because it's natural...Like being a Mother was natural. Let it Come to you....…; Added by Heather Nova at 4:51 on February 24, 2015

Comment on: Blog Post 'I HAVE BEEN BEMUSED OF LATE ...': lly quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at ghe last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: „We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?“ They said: „Of course.“ My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no ide what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for $0.05 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, aobut varying ghe amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. Is I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference. LOVE & LOSS I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in 10 years Apple had grown form just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30, I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even though about running away from the valley. But something slowly began dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been recected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next 5 years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at heart Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I'm pretty sure none of this would happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't loose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. And don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle. DEATH When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: „If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certanly be right.“ It made an impression on me. And since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: „If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?“ And whenever the answer has been „No“ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Steve Jobs .…; Added by Michael Grove at 14:08 on August 6, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post 'THE LOVE of NATURE ...': . The pictures are really boring! I wonder why that is? But there is always something to be amazed about even if the leaves didn't capture your imagination! I love reflections in glass… mimi said Love the photo - it's a reminder to me that the Outiside is always looking in ;>) You just happened to capture it for us. Cool! helenrscpsaid I love this picture too…it's a great reminder that we can't force it, but if we're open and receptive to it, there is amazing beauty and creativity everywhere. Centria said Oh Martha this is incredibly beautiful! I have been staring mesmerized at it. You have brought the Inside/Outside together as One. And isn't it interesting how your mind wanted to photograph the leaves and you were trying so hard…but it's almost like Spirit drew you to the place where there was energy. Where Spirit wanted to share with the world. I am so glad you decided to play! P.S. added carrot to the juice for the first time this morning. It was really yummy. And I think of you almost every single time I juice. And thanks for your kind words about the blog.…; Added by Michael Grove at 12:24 on January 15, 2012

Comment on: Blog Post 'All We Need is LOVE ...': n harmony with the deep dimension, the cosmic matrix. We can become an integral part of the great wave of evolution that unfolds throughout space and time. We are here not just to subsist, to endure suffering or enjoy fleeting satisfactions and justify our existence in the eyes of others and in our own. We are here to experience the joy of living, the happiness of loving and being loved. We are here to celebrate this joy and happiness. We are here so the Akashic spark within us could inspire the re-cognition of the purpose of our life - a purpose centered on harmony with the universe, attained through our all-embracing love. Above all, we are here to participate in the great transformation that sets the stage for our species’ ascent toward deeper insight and higher wisdom. We are here to thrive and to evolve, with all-embracing love for each other and for all things in the cosmos. Ervin Laszlo …; Added by Michael Grove at 13:10 on June 28, 2013

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Video: Where Science and Buddhism Meet PART 1: most powerful creative mediums to help spread the message of love, compassion and virtue with the world! :) Thank you for taking the time to watch this! If you enjoy this video and think it would be of some benefit or interest to others please share! My intentions are of a pure and positive nature and with this I hope to share what I believe to be a very meaningful message. I've made this to share what I believe to a profound convergence of two way seemingly opposite ways of perceiving and understanding reality. Lots of love!! - Gerald You can download a version of this video directly from Vimeo ( http://www.vimeo.com/2293696)! Here is a very partial list of resources, please message me with any questions! -Wave/Particle Duality -- Tao of Physics - pg 67, 69 Quantum Enigma -- pg 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-par... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7xJ0... http://science.howstuffworks.com/atom... The Fabric of the Cosmos -- pg. 206 -The Emptiness of Atoms- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kypne2... http://education.jlab.org/qa/atomicst... -The Quantum Field - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_... Tao of Physics -- pg. 210 Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmrHM... If you have any questions on the content or need some good resources please send me a message! Thanks again :)…; Added by Michael Grove at 17:34 on January 17, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post 'THE EVOLUTION of CONSCIOUSNESS': and one with each other and with the world, all-embracing love must become a basic feature of our consciousness. Ervin Laszlo …; Added by Michael Grove at 13:25 on June 28, 2013

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