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“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day.”
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Beginning in the 12th century, ceramics were produced in Iran with a frit body that provided a clean, light surface for painting. The most luxurious of these wares contained luster, added to the surface in a second firing and creating a metallic sheen that complemented mystical texts and images.
While the image on this dish does not appear to be narrative, the presence of a bird, a familiar theme in Persian mystical literature, and human features associated with light (such as the moon-shaped faces) set the tone for the mystical verses appearing in two bands around the rim and interior. The text includes poetry by Rumi’s spiritual master, Shams al-Din Tabrizi (d. 1248), as well as verses believed to have been composed by the lesser-known Baba Afzal al-Din Kashani (d. 1213–14).
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Which is bigger? The number of grains of sand on Earth or the number of stars in the sky? A group of researchers at the University of Hawaii went out and calculated exactly this. They said, if you assume a grain of sand has an average size and you calculate how many grains are in a teaspoon and then multiply by all the beaches and deserts in the world, the Earth has roughly 7.5 × 1018 grains of sand, or seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains.
With the help of Hubble telescope scientists came up with an estimate of 2003 stars for every grain of sand in the sky. Author and science writer David Blatner says we can find the same number of molecules in just ten drops of water – an equal number to all the stars in the Universe. Mind-boggling? Go read the book.
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Amidst a plethora of online resources one can still buy Xeroxed movie scripts sold by the only friendly script salesman of New York City, South of Houston.
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LOOKING-GLASS SELF
The “looking-glass self” is Charles Horton Cooley’s most famous concept, and it is widely known and accepted by psychologists and sociologists today. It expanded another famous philosophers’s idea (William James) of self to include the capacity of reflection on its own behavior. Other people’s views build, change and maintain our self-image; thus, there is an interaction between how we see ourselves and how others see us. Through these interactions, human beings develop an idea of who they are. Cooley argued that when we feel shame or pride, it is due to what we think others view us as. He also mentions that we do not always perceive someone’s impressions correctly.
The notion of the looking-glass self applies throughout an individual’s life: interactions with new people time and again encourage self-evaluation based on a presumed impression given off. In other words, one’s self-identity can be socially constructed.
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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. Amidst a plethora of online resources one can still buy Xeroxed scripts sold by the only friendly script salesman of New York City, South of Houston. The Matrix Script is a must-have in your collection.
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“Philosophy cultivated for so many ages by the most distinguished men and yet there is not a single matter within its sphere which is still not in dispute and nothing, therefore, which is above doubt.”
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Chanel’s podcast 3.55, sets to present a new series of interviews recorded during the inauguration of Mademoiselle Privé in Tokyo.
Tyle Brûlé, editor-in-chief of Monocle, leads the new podcast this Fall for the house of Chanel introducing a new way to communicate and share information from a vast archive, with guests such as: Sofia Coppola, Soo Joo Park, Pharrell Williams, Bruno Pavlovsky the President of Chanel himself, Kirsten Stewart and many others. The guests intimitately converse about their Japan memories, their perception of the brand Chanel starting with Karl Lagerfeld and moving on with Virginie Viard and how it has inspired them in their creative work, inviting the listeners to immerse into the world of Gabrielle Chanel.
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Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times best sellers. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics, such as: neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality — but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Listen to his amazing podcast: Making Sense where he speaks with Martie Haselton about sex and gender, the role of hormones in human psychology, “Darwinian feminism,” the unique hormonal experience of women, transgenderism, the Google Memo, and other topics.
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Unit One Pencil Holder
Unit One by Mark Braun is a functional desktop sculpture for storing objects of the modern workplace. Pencils, business cards and mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, equally find their place in a Unit One.
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Schoenstaub Carpet Nebula
Home is where the heart is. That’s why Schoenstaub offers elements for the living space enriching your most cherished place in the world. Every journey begins at home. Their debut collection allows to easily incorporate fascinating views and timeless perspectives into any personal space. The Nebula carpet is of superb…
quality and made where all premium carpets are manufactured, namely in Iran.
