9/03/2015
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8/26/2015
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8/24/2015
8/19/2015
8/13/2015
Love is a skill …
"Love
is a skill, a precious skill that can be learnt... We all have the
syllabus of love right inside us, printed on every cell... They tell us
that life has only one overriding purpose-to discover this source of
infinite love, called in Sanskrit the Atman or Self, and then to express
this love in daily living." - Eknarth Easwaren
8/11/2015
Thread
There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can't get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding. you don't ever let go of the thread. - William Stafford
8/05/2015
7/30/2015
Experiences
It seems the happiest people in this world have found a way to distance themselves from shopping addictions and unnecessary spending. Life is about memories, not diamonds. Just think about it: At the end of your life, are you going to be reminiscing about the fact that you had an iPhone 6 Plus while everyone else was still using the 5, or are you going to recall golden memories you shared with the people who shaped who you’ve become? A study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology shows people who made expensive purchases on products rather than experiential investments often devalued a new item’s worth directly after buying it. Researchers from San Francisco State University found people do, in fact, understand life is all about the memories we create, but we get so caught up in trends and demand that we cave and make purchases we’ll inevitably regret. Before they even made the purchases, study participants said life experiences would be more beneficial than buying the latest and greatest items on their wish lists. After buying whatever their heart temporarily desired, participants soon realized they would much rather have put that money toward an experience, which would have increased their happiness for a more sustained amount of time
7/13/2015
leaders
"A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on other people his or her shadow or his or her light. A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being-conditions that can either be as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good. The problem is that people rise to leadership in our society by a tendency towards extroversion, which means a tendency to ignore what is going on inside themselves. Leaders rise to power in our society by operating very competently and effectively in the external world, sometimes at the cost of internal awareness. I've looked at some training programs for leaders. I'm discouraged by how often they focus on the development of skills to manipulate the external world rather than the skills necessary to go inward and make the inner journey. - Parker Palmer
7/03/2015
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6/23/2015
Eyes of the Future
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
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