"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart...live in the question - Rainer Maria Rilke Everyone has unsolved matters in his heart. Such matters ebb and flow with the passage of time and their resolution cannot be forced arbitrarily. How these matters are handled largely determines ones effectiveness in living. Actively abiding in …
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Peace
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha Peace is neither the absence of conflict nor the perfectly feathered nest; it is an active state of abiding in thankfulness for the privilege of being.
Each Second
"Each second you can be reborn. Each second there can be a new beginning. It is choice. It is your choice." - Clearwater Why wait for tomorrow for things to get better or to be reborn? Life's essence is change, renewal. You can choose to reproduce that which has been or you can embrace the …
love truth life
Love is the sperm or seed by which all things are created. Love provides, among other things, an activating or signaling factor to that with which it fuses or fertilizes. All of creation is because of love. Love also provides what has been called in the biological sciences a "haploid paternal genome". It carries in …
The Courage to Continue
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill Life flourishes when the courage to continue is grafted onto action patterned in truth. Action not based on truth is frenzy and pointless. If at first you don't succeed at something, then try, try, again, but …
On Handling Hardships
There may be those who go out of their way to create hardships for you, but at the end of the day, nobody can hurt you without your permission. As Martin Luther King Jr. put it so well, "...so we must straighten our backs...a man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
Integrity
"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt." - Zig Ziglar With integrity, you take the high road always. You need not dissemble or manufacture stories to move forward along the path. In so doing, you …
Passionately Curious
I gave a talk on falconry to a wide-eyed and enthusiastic group of fourth graders at Lakeview Academy yesterday. The group, which included my eldest son, was thoroughly respectful, polite and inquisitive. What really stood out to me, though was not their behavior, but their (and their teachers'!) curiosity. Curiosity, they say, killed the cat. …
Sword or Shield
The feeling of vulnerability leads people to doing strange and counterproductive things. There seem to be two main camps into which people arrange themselves when they feel vulnerable: the first type takes up the sword and goes to battle while the second takes up a shield (or several) and hides. Those who go on the …
Sense of Self
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman How much of what you do, would you say is ego driven? One indicator of this is whether you await or actively seek the approbation of others when you accomplish things and then don't feel …
Gregory Hake 