Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. – Alan Alda
Assumptions are both helpful and dangerous.
Yes, it can be helpful to bring a sense of what something is what you’re doing, but be very careful as un-examined assumptions can lead you astray – sometimes in a big way.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge Christmas, unfortunately has become about presents and retailers “making their numbers.” It’s really about so much more.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Theodore Roosevelt There really little I can add here. We are not responsible for what others do, but we are responsible for who we have in our lives. We are not responsible for…
I had a thought while listening to a wonderful song by Colin Hay: If endeavoring to believe that the World is a beautiful place, replete with amazing happenings both minor and major, where everything that happens is an opportunity – for learning and growth at least – is a fiction, then oh what a beautiful and worthy…
Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used. – Emmanuel Just serve. Be of service. Discern your gifts, and talents, and strengths and give them to the World. Be careful to notice what works and what reflects back love, and who…
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” – Epictetus I’ve heard this put another way: happiness is not getting getting what you want, but wanting what you get. Your thoughts… ?