“ 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 [...]
“ The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” ~ L. Frank Baum What part of your life is choreographed? When are you freestyle? Do you like to lie back and go with the flow or are you more of the lean-in-to-it type? Think about the last time you [...]
“ We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” ~ Japanese Proverb What are the words used to describe the act of comparing one thing to something else? “A metaphor is something, a simile is like something, and an analogy explains how one thing being like the other helps to explain them both.” [...]
“ Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” ~ Tom Robbins What color is consciousness? Does it have a texture? Is it something that you can see, touch, hold, or even describe? When it comes [...]
“ Tradition is not the worship of ashes,but the preservation of fire.” ~ Gustav Mahler You've surely heard the expression "That's a lost art", right? With so many new ones popping up all the time, how can we know when one disappears? We live in an ever-changing world, where innovation and invention are [...]
“ Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Have you ever heard yourself saying “Wow, I’m so lucky!”? You might say it when some amazing opportunity shows up. You may use it in terms of a really special person in your life that you get to spend time [...]
