In a nutshell: payment for ideas can defeat the purpose. Continue reading
transformation
A truly Heroic Transformation of Consciousness
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging; we must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin on “the empathic civilization”
Certainty and Doubt
| “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” | |
 Bertrand Russell |
The Art of Trying by Paulo Coehlo
Dealing with anger positively
Ironically, if it hadn’t been for racism and prejudice, we may not have had a Gandhi. I wouldn’t be here standing and talking to you about my grandfather. He may have been just another successful lawyer who had made a lot of money. Continue reading
Persistence
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Continue reading
If there is no struggle there is no progress
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Continue reading
Kaizen is about how to achieve big leaps through small steps
When you improve a little bit each day, eventually big things occur. Don’t look for big, quick improvement. Instead, seek small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens, it lasts.
– Jon Wooden
Great Ideas
Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you’re doing. Continue reading
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