The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. Continue reading
Month: July 2013
His Kind of Odds
If you ask my next-door neighbor what he does for a living, he will tell you that he is a professional gambler involved in organized crime. In truth, he is an insurance agent. He has a healthy disrespect for his business, and extends that skeptical mode into his philosophy of life. “We’re all gamblers,” says he, “every one of us. And life is a continual crapshoot and poker game and horse race.” Then he adds, “And I love the game!” Continue reading
what kind of pie are you….
A man shared the story of his grandmother, who, in her late seventies, was very ill. “I was having so much trouble letting her go,” he explained. “I finally got up the courage to say to her, ‘Nana, I don’t think I can let you go.’ I know that sounds selfish, but it’s what I felt. Continue reading
You have to see who you are and how you are…
You can’t make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that, changes will flow naturally. You don’t have to force anything, struggle, or obey rules dictated to you by some authority. It is automatic; you just change. Continue reading
There is so much talk about the system….
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. Continue reading
Letting Go
To “let go” does not mean to stop caring.
It means I can’t do it for someone else. Continue reading
the first task of a leader is to make sure the organization knows itself….
How would you define a good leader today? Continue reading
singular periods of life lived to the fullest….
When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. Continue reading
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything….
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back.Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. Continue reading embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. Continue reading
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