Oliver's blog
Wake Up Call
The Greatest of Follies
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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On Awareness
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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Go Fly a Kite
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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On Becoming
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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On Tracking
If you are...very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes.
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On Bearing a Hard Thing
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
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On Duty and Health
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
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On Art and Fighting
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
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On Character
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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A Journey of One Inch
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
