The Mind is Everything

Hurt people, hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault.  Love is the weapon of the future. – Yehuda Berg [Note: what follows might…

“Commitment is an act, not a word.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Commitment, of course, starts with a word, or words; the speaking, however, is always necessary, it is never sufficient. What commitments have you merely spoken (whether in your head, or out loud), but have yet to act on, consistently? The answer to that question is…

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. – Confucius People confuse glory, and success, with never failing. Quite the contrary. Success, and glory, consists of getting back up each time you get knocked down. Of learning from non-desired outcomes and beginning again, with wisdom and humility….

Less than three minutes in to the latest episode of the Good Life Project I heard something that I had to write about. In introducing how he went from soccer-playing college freshman from the ‘burbs to immersed in indigenous Amazonian culture, Tyler Gage talks about how stewardship was part of the language of an indigenous tribe he was “with.” It…

Sometimes, but not always, there’s a difference between asking for something and accepting it and being willing to receive what’s offered. This post was inspired by some thing from Jonathan Fields; I recommend reading that post here. When we ask for something, it’s what we want. It so often comes from a place of Ego….

One theory says that if you treat people well, you’re more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do…