The following quote of the day struck me from my reading today:

“The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don’t begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.”–Russell Simmons

About the Author

The above quote is from Russell Simmons’ book, Do You. Russell Simmons is an Afriican-American enterpreneur most noted for being the creator of Def Comedy Jam.

Following is a quote by one of my favorite sources, the great Albert Einstein:

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”–Albert Einstein

Greg Haygood published a great article on how to do encryption using the iPhone SDK’s Security.framework. He provides links for examples of doing symmetric encryption and asymmetric encryption.

The Quote

I came across this great quote that really crystalizes the meaning of “suffering” as well as how we might interpret events in our lives in a manner that always results in our betterment:

“Do you want a sign that you’re asleep? Here it is: you’re suffering. Suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.”–Anthony de Mello

The Author

Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist known mostly for his books on spirituality. One of his most noted conferences, “Wake Up To Life,” is the only full length conference he permitted to be recorded. He died suddenly in 1987, after which many of his teachings were questioned by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) in 1998 as being distanced from the Christian faith and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Considering spirituality–and not religion–was the main point of his teachings, this is not a surprise. After all, if everyone took responsibility in full for their own spirituality, why would we need a church?