“If you think it is ever warranted to stop on the path of further understanding, you are very far from the truth. The life which we received was given to us not that we might just admire it, but that we should ever look for new truth hidden from us.” – Leo Tolstoy, quoting John…
“And so she woke up Woke up from where she was Lying still Said I gotta do something About where we’re going” – U2, Running To Stand Still This song is about drug addiction. Thankfully I’ve never been a drug addict and so I guess I don’t hear it that way. Instead I hear the…
“It takes many hours to make what you want to make. The hours don’t suddenly appear. You have to steal them from comfort. Whatever you were doing before was comfortable. This is not. This will be really uncomfortable.” – Derek Sivers, Where To Find The Hours To Make It Happen This phrase, stealing hours from…
“I heard the old, old men say, ‘Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.’ … I heard the old, old men say, ‘All that’s beautiful drifts away Like the waters.’ – WB Yeats Most people don’t like change. They want to stay in the same comfortable place indefinitely, go to a time share…
“Wu-wei is the understanding that energy is gravity, and thus that brush writing, or dancing, or judo, or sailing, or pottery, or even sculpture is following patterns in the flow of liquid.” “Panta rhei—everything flows, and therefore the understanding of water is the understanding of life. Fire is water falling upwards.” – Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden,…
“We can park the van and walk to town Find the cheapest bottle of wine that we could find And talk about the road behind How getting lost is not a waste of time Le Bois d’Amour will take us home And in a moment we will sing as the forest sleeps” – Jack Johnson,…
There is a scene in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty where Walter Mitty looks at a picture of Sean O’Connell. Walter is the daydreaming, play life straight ahead guy, Sean is the bold, adventurous photographer who masterfully dances on the edge between chaos and order. Walter looks at the picture of Sean looking back…
“The process of life should be the birth of a soul. This is the highest alchemy, and this justifies our presence on earth. This is our calling and our virtue.” – Henri Amiel I’ve managed to finish three books this year, a disappointing total to be sure. But I’m actively reading every day, and balance…
O wondrous creatures, By what strange miracle Do you so often Not smile? – Hafiz, Strange Miracle The world is challenging at the moment. It’s always been challenging of course, but most of us never really felt the full weight of the world like we do this year. Still, there’s plenty of reason to smile,…
“What’s the me in ten years going to think about what I did today?” – Hugh Howie, TKP Interview I wrote a 500 word post Friday night about what I was going to do, read it and tucked it away in the drafts folder. I won’t write about what I’m going to do, I’m just…
