Author: onetusk
Correcting the imbalance
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance: Continue reading
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of the human freedoms”—the freedom his Nazi captors could not take away. They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Viktor Frankl himself was a self-aware being who could look as an observer at his very involvement. Continue reading
Spirit of Discovery
Tonight, before leaving, I’m going to spend time sorting through the pile of things I never had the patience to put in order.
And I will find that a little of my history is there.
All the letters, the notes, cuttings and receipts will take on their own life and have strange stories to tell me – about the past and about the future.
All the different things in the world, all the roads travelled, all the entrances and exits of my life.
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Unfolding of the wings
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Continue reading
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)
“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.” Continue reading
Power of Sentence
The power of a sentence is tremendous. A single destructive sentence can ruin somebody’s life, make your day, or change your mood. Fortunately, there are some sentences that can give us power to go on. Continue reading
Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s next retail chief, talks energy and intuition
Late Monday, Apple announcedthat it has tapped Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to lead its retail efforts in a newly created position reporting to CEO Tim Cook, starting next spring.
Apple has a reputation for going with intuition. Steve Jobs famously hated focus groups, and instead followed an internal compass. It would appear Apple’s new hire has the same sensibilities. In a TEDx Hollywood presentation she gave in March of this year, Ahrendts delved into the power of “human energy.”
Ahrendts, who was raised by a “spiritual mother and philosopher father,” says she believes in the motivational power of energy: “Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things,” she said.
Watch all rest of Ahrendts’ talk below:
Assimilate My words alone
Do not waste your time
In discussing my teachings. Continue reading
Gratitude is an essential part of being present
The present moment is your life. It’s nowhere else—never, ever. Continue reading
ONE TUSK 