SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?”
DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?”
SON: “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?”
SON: “I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “If you must know, I make $100 an hour.” Continue reading
Personal Development
Give yourself permission to two-step, march, waltz, or boogie to your own beat….
Henry David Thoreau said, “If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Continue reading
Violence
“Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. Continue reading
Reaction
“Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Continue reading
“When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
What traps most of us is relying more and more on what made us successful, without thinking about what success means. So we rely on knowledge, skills, or old formulas that may become increasingly overextended and out of touch. Continue reading
Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about
“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. Continue reading
Intrinsic Purpose
There was a big city businessman who once went on holiday to a faraway beach. One day he walked past a local fisherman who was lazing around, with his fishing rod in the water, enjoying the sun and a beer. Continue reading
Pause, just long enough to be informed
One of my teachers said to me once, “We need to pause, just long enough to be informed.” When our life is deconstructing, when our familiar points of reference are shifting or falling away completely, when our minds are the most confused and our hearts the most broken-open, that is the time to pause. Pause, just long enough to be informed. Continue reading
Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul
Human beings are always concerned about death – because we are not living
Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground is afraid of death? Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying? Continue reading
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