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Just a periodic reminder today that here’s a link to my free Scala and functional programming training video courses at LearnScala.dev.

As I read this NY Times article about What ‘The Apprentice’ Gets Exactly Right About Trump, these lines from Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” ghostwriter really stick out:

“The first lesson is that a lack of conscience can be a huge advantage when it comes to accruing power, attention and wealth in a society where most other human beings abide by a social contract. The second lesson is that nothing we get for ourselves from the outside world can ever adequately substitute for what we’re missing on the inside.”

This is a short collection of quotes from Rumi:

My religion is love.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Be a witness, not a judge.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.

“Swami Vivekananda says that if you have ever felt the urge to stretch out your arms in trying to embrace the universe, you have felt the truth. Not one atom in this universe, not one insect, not one life here is different from you. It is you yourself. It is one life and one consciousness. It is a joy, an enormous creativity of the consciousness which shines in all these ways. When you experience the universe, you are tasting yourself!”

~ Swami Sarvapriyananda, Dissolve into Infinity

“Just as water wears away stone over time, daily practice thins the veil of illusion.”

~ Ram Dass, in Polishing The Mirror

Last night I passed out for the 10th time. As usual, I woke up in the middle of the night, and knew that I felt really bad. I ran to the bathroom to splash cold water on my face, and knew I was going to pass out before I could get the Benadryl open. So I got back into bed and passed out.

Of course, when you pass out, you never know if you’ll wake up again, but so far I’m 10 for 10.

A unique thing about this event is that I was hit very hard in the top-right part of my head in the afternoon, and still have that pain today. I suspect that it had to do with this syncope event.

October 5, 2024: When I started to wake up this morning I clearly heard two men talking.

It started when the first man — who turned out to be an older man — sighed pretty deeply, and then the second man asked him what that was about. I assumed that the second man was his son or grandson.

The old man replied, “Do you ever notice that when you sigh, you’re doing the right thing?”

The younger man said he didn’t know what that meant. I thought the same thing.

So the old man said, “Well, you’ve been thinking about something, and now you’re about to do the right thing, but for one reason or another you don’t want to do it. But now you’ve decided to do that right thing, so you let out a sigh before you do it.”

I tried to stay there to here more of the conversation, but I could not, because I was waking up too fast.