“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.” — Plato Over a limited period of time, I have experienced individuals who give the appearance of engaging in discourse but in reality are caged hostages of their own minds. It becomes painfully obvious, that these individuals are completely involved with the combustion of noise [...]
“. . . refuse to carry the corpse of a mistaken yesterday.” — Ernest Holmes Over several recent conversations, an extremely close friend and I discussed how certain individuals . . . chose to embrace their failures, disappointments, mistaken choices, misdirected hurts, missed opportunities and elected irresponsibilities to color the tapestry of their present lives. [...]
“Be youself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde Perusing through this process we call life, we experience many plateaus in various sequences. Many we acknowledge with the gold standard of rewarded success, and others fall by the proverbial wayside. There can exist a series of flash points, that trigger a subtle understanding of [...]
“Standing in the light of your conscious presence, exists the essence of your self worth and being.” — JLR By definition mindfulness is: a means of paying attention, awareness without judgment of what is via direct/immediate response, and also comes from Eastern spiritual/religous traditions such as Zen/Buddhism. Manifesting can show or demonstrate plainly, as in [...]
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicholaus Copernicus What energy in the essence of a split second do you emit through your presence, smile, attitude, demeanor or intention? Whether you wish to believe it or [...]
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.” – Albert Einstein, The World as I See It As you [...]
“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.” — Santayana At times, our lives appear to be in a “holding pattern” where we move through the day to day activities without achieving grandiose accomplishments. The word “wandering” comes to mind even possibly a “meandering of sorts,” imposing a shadow of confusing direction as time fleetingly passes. Within those minutes [...]
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery We engage in a potpourri of random/selective thoughts during the course of any given moment/day. If we look at this process as a forum of consciousness where we blithely choose from the reservoir of thought . . . [...]
“Do not seek outside yourself.” – from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Chaos creates an environment of static perception and perspective. Choices become clouded with uncertain inevitabilities layered in fear. Our path and direction include markers we don’t recognize and fail to understand. We become mired in shaded half truths and foolish priorities. We slowly [...]
“The wisest mind has somthing yet to learn.” — George Santayana Have you stopped to think about what you’re really doing with your life? More importantly, have you stopped for any period of time the IPod, computer applications, Facebook, Myspace, Tweeter, Youtube, Texting or cell phone usage? Of course, the next interrogatory following might be, [...]