Following your bliss is not about gratifying your personal desire for pleasure; it is about “doing what you absolutely must do to be yourself.”
Do You Need to be Productive? Why?
How much of our “need” to be productive is driven by external pressures that are more about making someone else rich and/or powerful, than about fulfilling some internal human desire?
Please .. Don’t Text and Drive!
Life is a miracle. It is precious and is the greatest gift you will ever receive. It is the quintessential definition of the word, ‘unique’. You see, in the entire universe, there is only one you, and you are irreplaceable. So please, don’t text and drive!
Small Successes
It’s quite often the little things in life that make the biggest difference. That’s definitely the case with small successes – it’s those personal little triumphs that can make an amazing impact on your day and have you feeling on top of the world.
Dispatches From Mayne Island: Lessons on Life, Death and Leadership
Mayne Island, life and death blend naturally together. Death feels different here than in the urban and suburban environments. Life and death are not engaged in a struggle. They embrace as the body of lovers merging into one body. This is the natural blending of life, life’s vitality and beauty, and is nourishment for the soul when we allow ourselves to be open to the harmony of the natural process. In our times, we attempt to hide death, block and tuck it away from our vision. It is a fallacy to think we can. Death is an ever present reality. Yet we are confronted by a choice.
Look Where You Want to Go
Over the years, a simple saying has helped me focus and move effortlessly along my chosen terrain – could they be words to live by?
Zen Herbalism
If we truly want to be healed by the plants, it’s not enough to just covet those that will probably heal us. I’m convinced that to heal fully, we need to bow down to the mystery of it all.
Dispatches From Mayne Island: Meditations on the Writings and Paintings of Emily Carr – Part One, Possession
In the early hours, gazing at the stars and nights later listening to the song of trees in the “quiet quiet” I was reminded of the simple truth that I can possess nothing but the illusion of possessing.
Finding Your True Self Worth
When I was younger, I tied most of my “self-worth” to how others viewed me. Again, this is probably pretty commonplace, but I’m starting to think most of us lie to ourselves as “mature adults” by saying that we outgrew that phase in our lives. Have you? Are you sure?
The Creative Grain of Existence
Creativity isn’t a prerogative of supreme beings. Why you may well ask. Simple. We are all, individually and collectively, riding the crest of evolution today, thanks to our in-born craft and appetite for inventiveness, not to speak of the emergence of great machines and harnessing of energies.
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