STEVE JOBS... PAYING TRIBUTE TO
iPad to pray and meditate each day, to do my yoga watching simple videos, to keep up with the news, check my emails, fool around with all my apps... Jennifer uses her iPhone to snap candid shots of her boys and to listen to music while she exercises her polo ponies... Of
lives, the way we work and the way we entertain ourselves. STEVE JOBS revolutionized so many vital aspects of our lives. I use his
Such a great man, such a genius... he changed the way the world
with the amazing Mac, then went on to eventually give us the iPod, iPhone and iPad – computers so tiny – held in the palm of our hands – and so powerful, connectivity and dissemination of news
course so much more even!! I think none of us can today conceive of a world without his many inventions - especially the computer. For make no bones about this, Steve Jobs invented the computer; the windows operating system was his brainchild even though it took another great man to bring it to the world. But he soon followed
long enough to claim to have existed in HIS lifetime. We mourn his passing with great awe that he lived amongst us.
has forever changed the face of the Earth. Steve Jobs was surely a God come to earth to transform the world. Te way he lived, the way he endured his cancer and his pain, and the way he passed away - peacefully and content to have done what he had set out to do in this lifetime - short though it be - convinces me he is definitely one of the highly realized Masters of the Universe. I am SO thrilled and so humbled that I lived
life story reflects the inevitable journey of a saint really. Born out of wedlock, adopted by parents who very nearly did not take him in but who came to share his dream so much they spent their life savings sending him to College only to see him drop out... yet who must surely have been awed by the strength of his mental focus and clarity. At 21, he had started his first company; by the age of 25, he was already worth a hundred million. But Jobs’ life, his work and his dreams has never been about
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money. Like that of a holy being, his life seemed to be a series of “tests” as his fortunes climbed to peaks and dived to depths. After the down times - his failure to initially transform his computer to the big league the way Bill Gates did - and then roaring back with the Mac - then at the age of 30 being unceremoniously dumped by APPLE, the company he had founded, in a Boardroom tussle that he lost - and then many years later after he had given the world the incredible iPod and iPhone, Steve Jobs discovered in the midst of his most triumphant moments that he had cancer! Never once through these amazing trials and tribulations did he waver from his life’s purpose. I have
NEVER read of him saying anything negative about anyone or expressing any kind of frustration or self pity. Steve Jobs absorbed the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune in a way that must surely only inspire us – even when he was supposedly out in the wilderness, sacked from Apple, he did not rail against the man responsible for having him kicked out. In fact, first he apologized to those who had supported him, hanging his head in contrition and apologizing for having “failed” them, then later said it had been “the best thing that had happened to him” - to be kicked out of the company that he had himself founded! He viewed the humiliation as a release from the pressure to perform.
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