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Posted on Feb 11, 2008 under Blog Surfing |
I saw this on Kelly’s blog and thought it would be interesting!
Here are the instructions:
1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
This is from the brilliantly thoughtful Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Alblom.
The quote was from Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul, founder of CNN, who had been lamenting his inability to snatch up the CBS network in a corporate megadeal. I had bought the story to Morrie this morning because I wonderered if Turner ever found himself in my old professor’s position, his breath disappearing, his body turning to stone, his days being crossed off the calendar one by one - would he really be crying over owning a network?
“It’s all part of the same problem, Mitch,” Morrie said.
This little meme is completely voluntary and open to anyone who wants it.
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February 11th, 2008 at 8:50 am
He he funny… the nearest book to me is an Access 2003 text book… I wont bore you with page 123!
February 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I can’t believe I’ve never read that book. I’m going to go get it today.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
This is from Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth Awakening to your Life’s Purpose.
The ego doesn’t know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you. When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe- in the form of people and circumstances- gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole. The ego’s unconscious core feeling of “not enough” causes it to react to someone else’s success as if that success had taken something away from “me.” It doesn’t know that your resentment of another person’s success curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Oops, I posted 5 sentences instead of 3. Oh well, consider the extra 2 a bonus!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:29 am
From the book ‘Beijing Confidential’ by Jan Wong…
To demonstrate his incredible power, he flaps his little red flag at a lone female cyclist. “Go ahead,” he tells her. “Cross.”
If you are just starting your period, Hanlie, I suppose you could read alot into this…incredible power, little red flag, cyclist…go ahead. Ha!