“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. Continue reading
Month: April 2012
When Every Hope is Gone….
“When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Continue reading
It is not enough to study them like beetles under a microscope; you need to know what it feels like to be a beetle.
Put yourself in their shoes. How you see the world depends on where you sit. People tend to see what they want to see. Out of a mass of detailed information, they tend to pick out and focus on those facts that confirm their prior perceptions and to disregard or misinterpret those that call their perceptions into question. Each side in a negotiation may see only the merits of its case, and only the faults of the other side’s. Continue reading
The One Thing Needed – Tukaram
Of what avail this restless, hurrying activity?
This heavy weight of earthly duties?
God’s purposes stand firm, Continue reading
Love is not a relationship, it is a state
“…Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, sharing; he starts giving. The emphasis is totally different. With the first, the emphasis is on how to get more. With the second, the emphasis is on how to give, how to give more, and how to give unconditionally. This is growth, maturity, coming to you. Continue reading
The Path
I know the path: it is strait and narrow.
It is like the edge of a sword.
I rejoice to walk on it.
I weep when I slip. Continue reading
Mother of All Things
No time is no excuse
The most common excuse people give: “There’s not enough time.” They claim they’d love to start a company, learn an instrument, market an invention, write a book, or whatever, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Continue reading
Teamwork – Collaboration
“Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner’s success as a means for the attainment of his own.”
LudwigvonMises Continue reading
