Posted in Abundance, Life, Success, Time, tagged accomplishment, Being, Courage, Living, Meaning, Optimism on April 16, 2013 | 5 Comments »
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” ~ Dawna Markova
Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Success, Time, tagged Abundance, accomplishment, Being, Choice, Courage, Discovery, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Living, Meaning, Power on April 14, 2013 | 4 Comments »
Recently, I happened by a wonderful story recently about an individual who has had Parkinson’s Disease for the last 19 years of his life and how he is challenging his disability. The story can be found at http://ridewithlarrymovie.com/
Life’s challenges are met in a variety of ways but this is one that most of us will never endure. This is a truly inspiring story.
For a sneak preview of “Riding with Larry” here is the trailer . . .
Posted in Human Spirit, Life, tagged accomplishment, Being, Giving, Hope, Kindness, Living, Meaning on April 9, 2013 | 4 Comments »
“Every ray of sunshine
every drop of rain
every time the wind blows
I hear Your name
and every time a flower grows
or a baby cries
everything that’s young or old
with me in the night
I don’t know what’s out there
way behind the sun
but I got a feeling
that we’re not the only one
and I can see miracles
happening all the time
I can see eternity
through infinite eys
I was just a thinkin’
just the other day
about some other universe
not so far away
well maybe I’m an alien
from a neighborhood star
or maybe I’ll just fly away
on a slide guitar
I don’t know what’s out there
way behind the sun
but I got a feeling
that we’re not the only one
and I can see miracles
happening all the time
I can see eternity
through infinite eyes”
~ Keb’ Mo’
Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged accomplishment, Beauty, Discovery, Imagination, Living, Reflection, Thought, Time, Writing on March 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters
these by themselves delight, even without
a meaning, in a foreign language, in
Chinese, for instance, or when skaters curve
all day across the lake, scoring their white
records in ice. Being intelligible,
these winding ways with their audacities
and delicate hesitations, they become
miraculous, so intimately, out there
at the pen’s point or brush’s tip, do world
and spirit wed. The small bones of the wrist
balance against great skeletons of stars
exactly; the blind bat surveys his way
by echo alone. Still, the point of style
is character. The universe induces
a different tremor in every hand, from the
check-forger’s to that of the Emperor
Hui Tsung, who called his own calligraphy
the ‘Slender Gold.’ A nervous man
writes nervously of a nervous world, and so on.
Miraculous. It is as though the world
were a great writing. Having said so much,
let us allow there is more to the world
than writing: continental faults are not
bare convoluted fissures in the brain.
Not only must the skaters soon go home;
also the hard inscription of their skates
is scored across the open water, which long
remembers nothing, neither wind nor wake.”
~ Howard Nemerov, from The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, Success, tagged Abundance, accomplishment, common things, Imagination, Innovation, Optimism on January 2, 2013 | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine, Jim Kouzes, recently shared this inspiring 3-minute video of the Landfill Harmonic. I think too often we forget the desire to make music overcomes our limited access to musical instruments. What innovation . . .
Enjoy
Posted in Human Spirit, Joy, Life, Nature, Success, tagged accomplishment, Being, Energy, Free, Meaning, Thought on December 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
Posted in Abundance, Change, Human Spirit, Life, Success, Time, tagged accomplishment, Being, Believe, Imagination, Living, Meaning on October 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” ~ Robert Fulghum
Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged accomplishment, healthy-living, Living, Thought on October 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“I am a human being, not a human doing. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don’t… you aren’t.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
Posted in Abundance, Change, Human Spirit, Nature, Time, tagged Abundance, accomplishment, Energy, nature, Reflection, Thought, Time on October 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.” ~ Thomas Berry
Posted in Change, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, Time, tagged accomplishment, common things, Compassion, Discovery, Dreams, Free, Letting-go, Living, Meaning, Reflection on September 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen – I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.
I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
~ Neil Gaiman
