“Truth that’s told with bad intent, Bests all the lies you can invent.” — William Blake This quote takes in all of us, on levels we only begin to understand. When you finally distill and listen to what you are thinking, saying, and doing day after day an enlightenment of purpose usually follows. Unfortunately, our [...]
“Personal importance or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness, because we make the assumption that everything is about me.” — Don Miguel Ruiz How many instances can you name in the past two weeks in which you have taken a personal affront when an individual or group ignored, disagreed or insulted you? [...]
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” — Socrates In the past several weeks, I have met an inordinate number of individuals who bemoan the relentless activity in their lives. This incorporates the professional schedules of parents, children and extended families only widening a greater swath of increasing dysfunction in our personal lives. Of course, [...]
“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies, one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.” — Don Miguel Ruiz Simply put, we become domesticated through our orientation, environment, families, friends, teachers and professors through an education which greatly influences our perception and [...]
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” — Sir Walter Scott Yes, and the first person we begin that practice upon is ourselves. Deception is almost a learned experience from the cradle. It is infused upon us almost imperceptibly . . . and as we layer our lives with [...]
“Exploration is what is needed not ideology. Ideology means you have made your summary of life. If life can be summed up, it is not worth living.” — Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Recently, this term ideology has permeated innumerable conversations on a myriad of topics. It can be rather perplexing to use this term in a [...]
“Your life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be opened.” — Wayne Muller As you read these words in the above quote, you may feel completely at odds with that premise. You may be experiencing that your life in this moment, is something you really don’t recognize. Fundamentally, we create [...]
“Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Dylan Thomas It becomes an exercise in futility when all you do is repeat the same behavior and conduct, expecting a manifestation of renewed experience from limited investment. What of yourself are you giving to all those who [...]
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” — T. S. Elliott Artistic expression is seen on many levels. The obvious is related to: painting, sculpture, vocal performance, musical composition, various forms of design/invention, architecture, dance, poetry, literature and the continual discovery of technological advancement through creative minds. All [...]
“You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.” — Joel S. Goldsmith It becomes more apparent to me that we live in a reactive environment on a moment to moment basis, rather than a responsive one. Speaking with numerous people over several weeks, I very often have the [...]