TED Talks

My friend showed me this cool website
http://www.ted.com/talks

Little short videos, presenters are given maximum 18 minutes, about all sorts of things, I just started looking at it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html

Because if the wine is ready and the person is there, I'm opening it. I no longer want to postpone anything in life.

Dance

These guy are nuts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM&list=FLlBkUrFOcPYcQDy5t6N-n8g&index=1

Momentum

I might have had the best weekend of my life. I feel like I have so much positive energy now, and the momentum is just keeping me going. It's a good feeling. I don't want to write more because words would diminish the meaning.

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM&ob=av2e

Bob Marley - High Tide Low Tide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enfTlBjXgl8

Forrest Gump

One of my favorite scenes ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkNPjbaPTk

Finite and Infinite Games Part 9

Last one!

Travel

Genuine travel has no destination. Travelers do not go somewhere, but constantly discover they are somewhere else…

Nature does not change; it has no inside or outside. It is therefore not possible to travel through it. All travel is therefore change within the traveler, and it is for that reason that travelers are always somewhere else. To travel is to grow.

Genuine travelers travel not to overcome distance but to discover distance. It is not distance that makes travel necessary, but travel that makes distance possible. Distance is not determined by the measurable length between objects, but by the actual differences between them. The motels around the airports in Chicago and Atlanta are so little different from the motels around the airports of Tokyo and Frankfurt that all essential distances dissolve in likeness. What is truly separated is distinct; it is unlike. “the only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes” (Proust).

Finite and Infinite Games Part 8

Time

Each moment is not the beginning of a period of time. it is the beginning of an event that gives the time within it its specific quality. For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. there can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labor.

An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose of filling work with time. work is not an infinite player’s way of passing time, but an engendering possibility. Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future, but moving toward a future which itself has a future.

Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.

For the finite player in us freedom is function of time. We must have the time to be free. For the infinite player in us time is a function of freedom. We are free to have time. A finite player puts play into time. An infinite player puts time into play.

Finite and Infinite Games Part 7

Touch

Touch is a characteristically paradoxical phenomenon of infinite play.

I am not touched by another when the distance between us is reduced to zero. I am touched only if I respond from my own center- that is, spontaneously, originally. But you do not touch me except from you own center, out of your own genius. Touching is always reciprocal. You cannot touch me unless I touch you in response.

The opposite of touching is moving. You move me by pressing me from without toward a place you have already foreseen and perhaps prepared. It is a staged action that succeeds only if in moving me you remain unmoved yourself. I can be moved to tears by skilled performances and heart-rending newspaper accounts, or moved to passion by political manifestos and narratives of heroic achievement – but in each case I am moved according to a formula or design to which the actor or agent is immune. When actors bring themselves to tears by their performance, and not as their performance, they have failed their craft; they have become theatrically inept.