I have found in my teaching that the single most exhilarating, thrilling, and motivating idea that people have ever really seriously contemplated is the idea of the power of choice — the idea that the best way to predict their future is to create it. Continue reading
Psychology
You seem to be carrying her still
A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her.
When people reflect on how it feels when their experience is most positive….
“As our studies have suggested, the phenomenology of enjoyment has eight major components. When people reflect on how it feels when their experience is most positive, they mention at least one, and often all, of the following. Continue reading
Peace of Mind: The Truth beyond Success and Failure
It does not matter to a man of awareness whether he is successful or unsuccessful, well-known or absolutely unknown, powerful or just a nobody. To a man of awareness, these dualities don’t matter at all, because awareness is the greatest treasure. When you have it, you don’t want anything else. Continue reading
A Lifetime of Transitions
What animal walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening, yet has only one voice?
– The riddle of the Sphinx
The human being
– Oedipus’s solution to the riddle Continue reading
Marriage and Relationships
” It takes a long time to be really married. One marries many times at many levels within a marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out”
– Ruby Dee Continue reading
When is experience most positive?
“As our studies have suggested, the phenomenology of enjoyment has eight major components. Continue reading
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” – Satchell Paige
Life is always under construction..
“…One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned in life is that success is neither the destination nor the journey, but a way of travelling. Destinations and journeys inevitably involve arrivals and endings. I have always felt the word retired, for example was misspelled. The word should be retried or maybe, reinspired. Retired implies tired again or perhaps tired for the final time… Life is not something to step back from and admire when completed. It is an ongoing process of design, laying the foundations, forming, erecting, bonding, changing, detailing, refining and renovating… It is always under construction.. It calls for us to gain hindsight from all that went before… It calls for us to gain foresight by imagining a better world ahead for all by passing on our trials, errors, and achievements as lessons in leadership. It calls for us to live in the present, longing for neither yesterday nor tomorrow, but rather facing what today offers, boldly, optimistically and flexibly…”
– Denis Waitley – Empires of the Mind : Lessons to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-Based World
A joke is a serious thing!
Many years ago, Arthur Koestler wrote about three human responses, the HA!HA! reaction, the AHA! reaction and the AAH…! reaction. He suggested that we laugh when we unexpectedly see the same thing in two different frames of reference. Continue reading
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