All You Need

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. – Kurt Vonnegut Whatever you do is your art, if you let it be. Do everything with an artful intention and touch. Take care and act with awareness and love. Let everything you do…

The First wealth is health. – Emerson Without your health you cannot serve. If you cannot serve you cannot deliver value. If you cannot deliver value you cannot earn rewards. Thus to earn anything – money, friendship, reciprocation, anything – you must focus on, and continually attend to, your health. Your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health….

I was reading something from Michael Neill (his e-mail newsletter, if you’re curious) and he said something useful: fear is a function of the mind, not circumstance. So if fear is (just a) thought, and not anything real or tangible, then I can think differently. And not be afraid as much, or even anymore. I…

I was listening to a WNPR (CT Public Radio) radio show (The Colin McEnroe Show) and he was interviewing Byron Katie (of The Work). In their conversation Katie said something to effect of “all suffering comes from thought.” This McEnroe took some issue with. It was, unfortunately, a mis-understanding borne of not defining the term…

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius What’s true has been true for a long, long time – there’s really little I can add here.

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale The concept of the Self and who we are is endlessly fascinating to me. I think about my life and what I have created, and failed* to create, over the years. These ponderings are part of how my Self develops. If…