Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’ – Lao Tzu
What do you spend your time doing?
The key is that time is a limited resource and what you do with it matters.
When you say you can’t do something it’s because you’ve decided (consciously or otherwise) that something else was more important.
What you spend your time on is what you decided matters (even if you decided a long time ago, and/or by default . . . ).
“Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.” – Woodrow Wilson Wilson, of course, is speaking of the freedom that citizens (of a country) with liberty have. That, when encumbered by oppression and the like…
When you know something you (merely) have recall of some information; when you’ve learned something you’re able to take positive and/or constructive action based on information.
In Life there’s what we (really) want and what we do to keep it out of our lives. Yes, you read that correctly. We keep what we want out of our lives by what we do. And what we have in our lives is a perfect reflection of what we’ve done. * * * It’s…
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. – Hafiz I recently had a realization similar to the quote above. I was waiting for love to come to me, to be loved and cared for…
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross For so many of us, this concept is foreign. What’s more, for those folks to be confronted with this truth, great upset would likely ensue. But…
Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit. – Edward Abbey You are not made of metal or plastic. You are made of nature. You must regularly, and consciously, return to nature to renew your connection to what you are. Nurture your spirit with what it is – be in nature.