“ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see ” ~ Mark Twain Everyone likes nice people, right? What’s the difference between being nice and being good? Where does kindness fit into the picture? Nice, kind, and good; these are all the kind of seemingly similar qualities [...]
“ Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.” ~ Victor Hugo When the universe makes a request, do you listen? Do you recognize its touch when it taps you on the shoulder? What happens when your plans don’t [...]
“ You can't use up creativity.The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou How’s your relationship with creativity? Do you have a good understanding of it? More importantly, why is creativity such a key factor in your relationships? Few places in a person‘s life bring out self-defeat more than the [...]
“ I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.” ~ Mose Allison What does it mean to 'look through someone else’s eyes'? How does one learn the mental gymnastics to do such a thing? Why is having flexibility in perspective so important? When it comes to how we see the [...]
“ Where words fail, music speaks.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen Where would you be without music? What role does it play in your life? How do you discover new music to keep your soundtrack fresh? It’s no secret that the world of music has changed a lot in our lifetimes. While the World [...]
“ Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.” ~ Anthony G. Oettinger Have you ever felt like you were in two places at once? What’s it like to have your body in one place and your mind somewhere else? Just where do we fit in the space-time continuum anyway? [...]
“ Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.There is no why.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Do you ever wish you could just slow things down a little bit? Or maybe sometimes you’d be happy if the clock ticked just a wee bit faster? Time is a constant, but your perception of [...]
“ He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Do you consider yourself a helpful person? How often do you get asked for assistance? Why is it sometimes harder to help yourself than other people?It’s a basic part of the human condition to find yourself on either side [...]
“ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett Have you ever decided to pivot? Was it because of a new perspective? Did it make you adjust your priorities? There’s a plethora of possibilities that start with the letter P, but [...]
“ Anatomy is destiny.” ~ Sigmund Freud Where does your brain stop and your body begin? Do your mental processes have a boundary? What do we mean by 'cognition' anyway? Great minds from Plato to Freud have long wrestled with the inner workings of our noggins. The eternal question is how our brain works together with our body to [...]
