“ My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.” ~ Marlo Thomas What's something that makes a huge difference in your life, but you probably don’t think about it much, especially while you’re doing it? When we [...]
“ I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.” ~ Bill Laswell Do you ever feel like you’re riding your unicycle backwards? Does it seem like everything is due for a review? Have you been noticing things about [...]
“ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant Routine gets a bad rap. People label it boring, it gets summed up as a humdrum part of life. You even hear it used as a derogatory term or an insult sometimes. “What a [...]
“ The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ~ Lao Tzu Would you like to know the secret sauce for well-being? How about a panacea for the worlds problems? Perhaps just a worthwhile activity that you may have been missing. No, I’m not talking about [...]
“ Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp No doubt you’ve heard this one: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Like so many of those age-old grade-school brain teasers, you can trouble your head for hours and get nowhere closer to an answer. Here’s a [...]
“ For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist..” ~ Jon Favreau Do you know what it’s like to live through a “moment”? What’s the old saying? “History happens all at once?” [...]
“ The sun taught me how to love,by shining on everybody.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson Name one thing that you can’t live without. Yet too much of that same thing can be is definitely not something anyone likes to endure. There are lots of things that fit the bill, but the one I’m [...]
“ Skills are important. Ethics are necessary. Competence is desirable. Character is crucial.” ~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri Last week we talked about attention. This week I want to talk about flow. How are the two related? When you add them up, what do you get? What’s the state of being that arises that’s greater [...]
“ Presence is more than just being there ” ~ Malcolm Forbes Riddle me this: What is something that everyone thrives on, but no one wants too much of? To put it another way, it’s hard to live without it, but too much can be a curse. One moment you might be craving [...]
“ Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.” ~ Paulo Coelho [...]
