“ Your soul becomes dyed with the colour of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius What is your soul anyway? Is it your consciousness? Is it your collection of life experiences? Is it something you’re born with that stays the same throughout your life? Or is your birth just the starting point and your [...]
“ A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ~ George Augustus Moore Anna Halprin was famous for saying "Your body is a microcosm of the universe" — arguably one of the foundational statements of conscious dance. Science, of course, bears this out. Vast numbers of [...]
“ You only live once, but if you do it right,once is enough.” ~ Mae West Where do you go for your words of wisdom? Who do you turn to when you need advice? Have you ever employed the services of what is sometimes referred to as a “coach“? Life is a gift [...]
“ Tell me — and I forget,teach me — and I may remember, involve me — and will I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin What’s your secret sauce for learning? Do you have any special shortcuts or tricks up your sleeve that help you gain knowledge or wisdom more quickly? Do you ever reach [...]
“ Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ~ Albert Camus Take a look around you right now. You’re currently in the middle of something. You could be reading this anywhere -- your desk, your easy chair, your kitchen table. But you are also immersed in something, aside [...]
“ The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats What do you love most about travel? Is it the perspective you get from experiencing different cultures? Sampling exotic and delicious foreign cuisines? Perhaps the change of scenery is enough for you. I say [...]
“ It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.” ~ Henri Poincare Intuition. What is it? How important is it? Do you trust it implicitly or do you take it with a grain of salt? Has yours ever led you astray? "Trust your gut" is generally thought to [...]
“ How did it get so late so soon? ” ~ Dr. Seuss It’s a fact of life for every living being. We live inside it, and can never escape it. We measure it obsessively, from the smallest scale to the galactic. If you lose it, there’s no getting it back. We consider [...]
“ We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins "Dreams don’t come true. Dreams are true." So says Q-Jo Huffington, erstwhile friend and tarot-reading sidekick of Gwendolyn Mati, the protagonist (who happens to be you) in Tom Robbins’ farcical novel, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. In an unusual literary [...]
“ Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” ~ José Ortega y Gasset What does it mean to “place value“ on something? As I talked about last week, when it comes to other entities with a life force, there's a lot of communication going on. [...]
