When looking at our lives either in the present moment or retrospectively, what specifically jumps out as extraordinary or phenomenal? With cogent personal experience, it becomes crystal clear over time that it is the magic of ordinary days that illuminates the landscape of our lives. Whatever our direction, occupation, involvement or focus our response to [...]
“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.” - Seneca There was a point in my life, where handling a myriad of tasks at any given time I believed to be admirable. With experience, understanding and foresight it has become woefully obvious as stated by Nicholas Carr in a recent Wall Street Journal article. . . [...]
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force . . . When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” - Karl Menninger How do you believe you listen to another person? I chose the word listen, instead of the word “hear,” for a specific purpose. In the physical [...]
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin As you read these words so succinctly stated by Benjamin Franklin, what stirs in your reflective thinking? What individuals were pivotal in changing your life, your choices or your journey? At this point, has there existed those [...]
“Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.” - Lewis Carroll There are many times in this journey . . . unique for all of us . . . in which we experience it appears, extremes in how our attention is focused. The question then becomes how best to [...]
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson In recent days, it has become woefully obvious that without our values, principles, dignity, integrity and honesty we become what is loosely interpreted as a “viable commodity.” To fein obsolescence that this experience is a figment of our imaginations . . . [...]
“What you are comes to you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Moving through what we fundamentally believe is our life’s journey, can be conflicted, convoluted, mired, disjointed and beyond our comprehension in any given moment. At times, it feels as if we may be experiencing someone else’s life . . . not ours. If this is [...]
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Whirling around each of us is a world permeated with technological gadgets which comprise computers, iPhones and 24/7 news cycles which anesthetize our physical senses. On some levels this reflects our pre-occupation with just scanning ideas/information, becoming a function [...]
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path.” - Buddha Over many conversations and exchange of ideas with friends, the focus invariably changes to one’s purpose on our life’s journey. Through the many tangled twists and turns that our lives continually take, discerning how to proceed when we find ourselves immersed in [...]
“This day shall never come again.” - Thomas Merton What comes to mind when you think of wisdom? By definition, wisdom is: experience and knowledge together with the power of applying them, sagacity, prudence, common sense, sageness, judgment, discernment, reason, judiciousness, insight, learning and perhaps erudition. For each of us, wisdom comes from many avenues [...]