“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.” – Seneca
I know that the title of this post is, at best, tortured language.
I wanted to get your attention and draw your attention to the Truth that we all will die.
Let me repeat that: we all will die.
So let’s live now, while we’re alive.
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…
When you’re going somewhere you’ve never been to, what do you do? Do you just wing it? Do you just start driving and figure it’ll all work out? Of course not, but that’s what so many people do with their lives. Sure, they might have a vague plan, likely a mash-up of family and social…
Each one has to find his peace from within. And for peace to be real it must be unaffected by outside circumstances. – Mahatma Gandhi This reminds me of something I heard in the past: real peace-of-mind is being unaffected by both the bad and good opinion of others. So, cultivate and nurture a peace that…
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. – Wallace Wattles I would tweak Wattles’ language to the following: By thought, the thing you want is brought close to you. By acting you bring it into your life. Maybe that’s what Wattles meant, and we’re (or just me…
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine That step comes when you believe, sufficiently, in your ability to be okay in some other reality than your current one. That step comes when you trust that your Identity…
There is the timeless, changeless core: our humanity — that which we truly ARE, what we have always been (regardless of our (sometimes) behavior to the contrary). And then there is the external: behavior — that which must interact and adapt, this is what leaders DO. The core is who they are, behavior is what they do….