Skeleton performing zazen on waves by Maruyama Okyo, 1787, Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, Japan, lifted from Steve Silberman’s “What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?”
This from Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
I’d like to confess at this time, that contrary to what you might think from my March, 2011, post “iPad Lust,” I’ve now got both an iPhone and iPad, courtesy of my employer (so they can reach me anytime, they said). And I really love ’em both.