“It is not the critic who counts…” Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, Paris 1910.

A Treatise on Confusion

My teacher used to say:

“Confusion is a high state as long as you don’t stay there.”

Confusion means that something new is coming into our consciousness that we haven’t quite accepted yet. An old thought form or belief system is still in place and we’re not quite ready to let it go.There is a cross over between these two thought energies pulling at our mind.

This is confusion.

It’s a high state because we are moving from an old paradigm into a new one. This is progress, evolution or involution. People who are perpetually confused and confounded are not the subject of this discussion! We are talking about movement into new higher territory and the mental friction that is part of the natural process of getting there.

His Holiness the 14th Dalia Lama Historic Visit to Iowa May 18th 2010

In a historic first time visit to Iowa, His Holiness The Dalai Lama will visit the University of Northern Iowa on May 18, 2010. Two programs will be featured:

Panel Discussion

A Conversation with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet: Educating for a Non-violent World
Tuesday, May 18; 9:30-11 a.m., McLeod Center
Tickets: $15 ; UNI students free

Violence in our schools, communities, workplace and our world affects everyone. Join His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet and distinguished panelists as they discuss ways in which we, as individuals and as a society, can address issues of violence, promote civility and enhance understanding through education.

Keynote Address: The Power of Education

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Tuesday, May 18; 2-3:30 p.m., McLeod Center
Tickets: $50, $25, $15; UNI students free

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will give the keynote address for the 2009 Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series. His speech, “The Power of Education,” will focus on the importance of education in an increasingly global society, the role of education in developing socially responsible citizens, and the impact an individual can have on the world.

http://www.uni.edu/dalailama/

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