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@@ -43929,4 +43929,57 @@ or for being years ahead of your time.  If you're right and you know it,
 speak your mind.  Speak your mind.  Even if you are a minority of one, the
 truth is still the truth.
   -- Mahatma Gandhi
+~
+    The sky is pure, open space, free from all obstructions.  The nature of
+our mind is similar: the afflictions, self-centered attitude, and other
+obscurations are not in its essential nature.  Just as clouds may temporarily
+obscure the open sky, anger, attachment, and confusion can temporarily obscure
+our mind.  When they do, the pure, open nature of the mind still remains; we
+just can't see it at the time.
+    By generating the wisdom realizing the emptiness of inherent existence, we
+will be able to eradicate obscurations from our mind forever and enjoy the
+sky-like spaciousness of a purified mind.
+  -- Thubten Chodron, from "Awaken Every Day: 365 Buddhist Reflections to
+     Invite Mindfulness and Joy", Shambhala Publications
+~
+i buy all my hats
+at interdimensional
+pancake restaurant
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone.  It can't be external
+appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just
+the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want
+suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless
+past.  A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to
+mind (yid du 'ong ba).  Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core
+similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic
+being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current
+attitudes and behavior are.  That's how strong spiritual love is.
+  -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for
+     Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications
+~
+this is not confirmed yet, but UVa is changing the name of its funding tokens.
+UVa is moving away from the PTAO payment codes (Project, Task, Award, and
+Organization) to a new acronym using "Cost center, Activity, Program, Spend
+category" or... CAPS!!!
+finally all my hard work in fallout new vegas will be paying off.
+~
+Rob's Meeting Mantra:
+
+Is what I am thinking necessary to say?
+Is it necessary for this to be said by ME?
+Is it necessary for me to say this RIGHT NOW?
+
+  -- Rob Diethorn
+~
+fred's chow mantra:
+  just eat when you're hungry,
+  and be sure you're hungry and not just sating an appetite,
+  because scheduled food times are irrelevant to your body,
+  and can lead to overfeeding unless you're malnourished;
+  so let the body decide when to eat,
+  and use your brain to decide what you feed it.
+    -- fred t. hamster
+~