Stuart’s Philosophies

Searching For Direction, Perspective, Some tongue-in-cheek humor and Purpose? Seek to engage your mind, develop yourself and become a master of your own being. Here are my reflections of life and living, self-coaching and personal introspection.

Entries for April, 2007

Study Momentum To Overcome Inertia

I have studied momentum recently because of what I heard in the definition of momentum. I reproduce it here:
In general, the momentum of an object can be conceptually thought of as how difficult it is to stop the object, as determined by multiplying two factors: its inertia (the resistance of an object to [...]

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Massacre at Virginia Tech - Devastating Plight Of Inner Emptiness

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18virginia.html?hp 
I was watching with a sense of morbid horror when I turned on the TV to cactch the latest on CNN. I couldn’t believe what reporters said was “the worst massacre in US History”. A South Korean international student killed 32 of his other classmates before killing himself.
What happened?
Was this senior English major just nuts? What [...]

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Bad times: It happens to the best of us

I don’t know what it was for Friday the 13th for you, but from what I heard from one of my friends, it was a horrendous experience. I had a quick email that summarized it all, and the root of it sounded like conspiracy and backstabbing to me.
There was a glitch in some paperwork in [...]

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Are We Deceiving Ourselves?

A lot of people feel that they are unable to cope with the reality of life. They pack up their troubles and hide it away.
I wonder if this constitutes self-deception. It’s like the show “The Matrix”. You have to ask yourself this question - did the human beings get themselves into their own pile of [...]

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Are you a source of inspiration?

I was taking a cab to the Patterns of Excellence program (I was starting the morning session today) when I got the chance to speak to a retired teacher. He was around his early 70s, sharp mental faculties and he started a conversation with me about why I was working at 7am on a Sunday [...]

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