mind ambition

trying to kill my ego even as I am consumed by it

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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality, alongside similar sentiments by Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs (via curiositycounts)

(via theatlantic)

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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.
Frank Zappa (via artoftheunbeliever)

(via willzone)

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nationalpost: U.S.’s leaner military ‘turning a page’ on a decade of war: Obama President Barack Obama, rolling out a new defense strategy to shrink the country’s armed forces at a time of tight budgets at home, pledged on Thursday to maintain the United States as the world’s dominant military power.But Obama, anticipating attacks from his Republican rivals in an election year over the proposed $489 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years, said the reductions would be limited and not come at the expense of America’s military might.“Our military will be leaner but the world must know – the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats,” Obama told a news briefing at the Pentagon.To get a sense of the size of the U.S military, here is our graphic from earlier last year, looking at the scale of America’s forces. About time.

nationalpost:

U.S.’s leaner military ‘turning a page’ on a decade of war: Obama
President Barack Obama, rolling out a new defense strategy to shrink the country’s armed forces at a time of tight budgets at home, pledged on Thursday to maintain the United States as the world’s dominant military power.

But Obama, anticipating attacks from his Republican rivals in an election year over the proposed $489 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years, said the reductions would be limited and not come at the expense of America’s military might.

“Our military will be leaner but the world must know – the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats,” Obama told a news briefing at the Pentagon.

To get a sense of the size of the U.S military, here is our graphic from earlier last year, looking at the scale of America’s forces.

About time.