Your Infinite Heart

The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha I’ll keep posting stuff like this until I get it.* *  *  * * I’m working on it, but it make take a while . . . .

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Dutch proverb The hardest thing about anything is starting. Not because the first step is the hardest of the steps, compared to the others. But because there is Safety and anything (and everything) else. It’s kinda like going swimming…

“‎The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.” – William James I have long thought that Kant had it wrong when he said “I think, therefore I am.” Sometime not long after my Intro to Philosophy course at Hobart College…

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels . . . when you give up. When you stop learning and trying. When you decide that (the illusion of) safety and stagnation is better than intelligent risks and action. Losing is not defeat. “Failure” is not defeat. Not-getting-what-you-want is not defeat….

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde Sometimes people don’t do something (for someone) because it’s hard, or they don’t know how it will be received, or . . . . The problem is that we only grow and benefit from the things we actually do. When…

It’s the people around us who shape us and our behavior. Ask the BIG question: “What do you want to achieve in life?” And then think, “Are the people I’m hanging around helping me achieve this?” – Craig Ballantyne This is one of the most difficult things to ask yourself. Humans are social creatures and…