Jagat Cinta

Top 10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

Top 10 Famous Wisdom Quotes by Jagat Cinta

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow."
~James Dean

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
~Plato

"A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books."
~Chinese Proverb

"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
~William Wordsworth

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
~Jean Paul

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
~Oprah Winfrey

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
~Walter Lippmann

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
~Akhenaton

Fear, Anxiety and Phobia

Today Jagat Cinta will discuss about Fear, Anxiety and Phobia

My fear and doubts have vanished like mist

into the distance, never to disturb me again.

I will die content and free from regrets.

This is the fruit of Dharma practice.

Milarepa, from 'Fruit of Dharma Practice'

What is Fear?

In all cases, we could say that fear is a reaction to something that may happen in the future, be it realistic or not, it is always uncomfortable. And here we find one of the contradictions of fear itself: it should work to keep us from discomfort, yet it is uncomfortable itself.

Western Therapies - General Approach

Therapies for irrational fears work on the same basic principle: discover by experience that the feeling of fear (paranoia) is an exaggeration of what we perceive in the world, and force our rational mind to keep in control of the emotion. So, if you are afraid of spiders, perhaps the cure starts with simply drawing them, then looking at a small one - far away locked in a safe place - then forcing yourself to go closer (the rational mind says that nothing can happen), in the end, usually the patients will regain so much control that can even hold a poisonous, hairy, huge tarantula in their hands - obviously the end of therapy! This is not because they are exceptionally brave people, but they have gradually learned to take control over their exaggerated emotions, by realizing these emotions were not based on a real danger.

In extreme cases, people can be much harder to treat. Specifically when the reason for the fear is vague and hardly known, like imagining that you are being followed (paranoia), it is not always straight-forward or simple to make people realize that these fears are unfounded and the rational mind should take control.

Many types of fear/phobia are identified, I found some in a web blog recently:

Common fears:

Acrophobia: Fear of heights

Arachnophobia: fear of spiders

Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces

Belonephobia: fear of needles

Brontophobia: fear of thunder and lightning

Claustrophobia: fear of confined spaces

Hamartophobia: fear of sinning

Suriphobia: fear of mice and/or rats

Necrophobia: fear of death

Pentheraphobia: fear of the mother-in-law

Thalassophobia: fear of the sea

Xenophobia: fear of strangers or foreigners

Also some fears may be more common than generally thought:

Athazagoraphobia - fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting

Atychiphobia, Kakorrhaphiophobia - fear of failure

Metathesiophobia - fear of changes

Eva Rivas: a Russian-Armenian singer.

Eva Rivas; born Valeria Alexandrovna Reshetnikova-Tsaturyan, on 13 July 1987 is a Russian-Armenian singer.

Rivas was born and raised in Rostov-on-Don to an Armenian mother and a father of Russian and Greek descent. She took the stage name Eva Rivas from her Greek great-grandmother. Growing up in Rostov, she sang in the Armenian "Arevik" ensemble. Rivas is 6 foot 4.

On 14 February 2010, Rivas won the Armenian National Final and went on to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Apricot Stone". She placed 6th in the semi final and advanced to the final where she performed 21st in the line-up and placed 7th with a total of 141 points.

Rivas will continue traveling around Europe, promoting her song. She wishes to represent Armenia again in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

Always: one of the best songs in Eurovision 2009

In January 2009, Aysel Teymurzadeh was selected internally by İTV to represent Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia along with Iranian-Swedish singer Arash with the song "Always". Aysel became the first female singer to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest and only the second act ever to do so. On May 16, 2009, Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash finished third with 207 points, among the 25 performers that qualified for the Eurovision grand final.

Aysel together with Arash became the winner of the 4th Annual ESC Radio Awards in the category of the Best Group.

Aysel & Arash perform Always in Eurovision 2009

Aysel & Arash "Always" official video

Olia Tira: a singer based in Moldova

Olia Tira (born 1 August 1988 in Potsdam, East Germany) is a singer based in Moldova.

Tira was born in 1988 into a Soviet military family in Potsdam, East Germany. She spent a few years there and moved to Chişinău. She first appeared in festivals and concerts when she was 14 years old.

Tira attended school in Cahul and is currently a student in the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chişinău.

After participating in the 2006 and 2007 Moldovan national finals and finishing fourth in the 2009 Moldovan national final with Unicul Meu, she was selected to represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, along with SunStroke Project. They finished 22nd place in the Eurovision song contest final.

Tira's first album, Your Place or Mine?, was released in December 2006 by Nordika Multimedia. The songs were all written by Ruslan Taranu.

Lena Meyer: Euro Pop Music Princess

Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 23 May 1991), known professionally as Lena, is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, Norway, and won the contest with the song "Satellite". With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo (Our Star for Oslo), Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German singles chart. Both "Satellite" and her first album My Cassette Player debuted at number one in Germany, while the former has been certified double Platinum since, the album has been certified five times Gold for sales of over 500,000 units. Meyer-Landrut represented Germany, for the second consecutive time, in the Eurovision Song Contest at Düsseldorf in 2011 with the song "Taken by a Stranger".

Lena Meyer-Landrut was born in Hanover, Germany. She is the granddaughter of Andreas Meyer-Landrut, the Estonian-born West German ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1980 to 1983 and 1987 to 1989. She grew up as an only child, and started taking dancing lessons at the age of five; initially doing ballet and later practising various modern styles, including hip-hop and jazz dance. Meyer-Landrut grew fond of singing and appeared as an extra in a number of German television series; however she never received any formal acting or vocal training. In June 2010 she graduated from IGS Roderbruch Hannover, a comprehensive school, receiving her Abitur diploma.