Fate chooses your relationships, you choose your friends. Jacques Delille Ah, choice and fate. Two fascinating concepts about which endless things can be spoken and written and contemplated. From the great Greek Tragedies to Wheel of Fortune, we experience the impact of both. Choice seems to empower me. Knowing I have choice seems to make […]
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A friend is a person with whom I maybe sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ok , on this series of blogs, I am supposed to start, write, title, add a pic and post within 30 minutes. That hasn’t really been happening. I tend to search for quotes for way too […]
Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born, May all beings be at […]
My lemon tree blossoming like my life…the sweetest fragrance promising delicious fruits to come. Lisa Dalton Loss is such a devastating thing in our lives and it can come in many forms. In my blog two days ago about Leadership in chaos, I was thinking about the loss we experience when a world we hold […]
Have you constantly created an alluring future in your story? Jett Ferrell with thanks to Craig Volk, writer. The other day when I was searching for a topic to discuss, looking for a quote, and entered Four Pillars of Drama, another article popped up-The Four Pillars of Dramatic Writing ( for novelists too!). I was […]
Many people live in a state of eternal drama and chaos and think they can get away with this by labeling it as Passion. Bob Burg I see an organization torn by drama. I am deeply saddened. I want my organization […]
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire Where in them are they invited to step to the edge? Who calls them there? Who in them calls them there? Who are They? Who in me is […]
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon One of the great mentors of my life, Mala Powers, made me acutely aware of the fact that with every dream fulfilled, there is a maintenance price. There are a whole set of activities that arise, tasks […]
It is pointless to enter into discussion with people who will accept only the validity of proofs that already lie within their personal mode of thought. Rudolf Steiner Am I accepting as valid only that which I already believe is true and dismissing all else? Will I truly only agree with someone who is in […]
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln Have you ever entered a space where you felt intimidated? Its interesting how we invite ourselves to feel uncomfortable in certain atmospheres. We humans will go to great lengths to feel comfortable in our surroundings and to avoid places that ” […]