A number of you asked me to elaborate upon the following statement in yesterday's post: When you deliberately cultivate suppleness in heart, mind and body – the order is important! – you choose life. To begin with, why is the order important? Western culture places undue emphasis on the perfection of the mind and body …
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Disciple of Life
"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and …
It is in me
“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.” - Helen Keller One of the most central, pivotal realizations that anyone can have is that self - your innermost identity - cannot be defined from the outside-in. You won't find it in the opinions or desires of others, neither will you find …
Laws of Creation
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within …
Your Words
I was thumbing through some Sumerian texts over the weekend and came across the following words of wisdom from Šuppurag to his son, Ziusudra, who was listed as the last king of Sumer before the deluge: You should not speak improperly; later it will lay a trap for you. I hadn't thought about it this …
Balance
The constant drive pattern so popular in Western culture today is now in overdrive. The obsession for innovation and forward movement is nearly universal. Our future depends on it, we're told, but does it? While I cannot speak for everyone on this topic, I know in my own experience that failing to occasionally slow down, take …
Understanding
A simple thought for you today: If you seek always to apply your heart to understanding - no matter how uncomfortable not yet knowing may be - you'll move quickly along the way.
Reality
I recently came across Russell Brand's well-written piece on drug addiction, which was published in the Guardian nearly a year ago. If you haven't had a chance to read it, do so. Like so many of Brand's observations on life, his raw, evocative and honest meditations on this subject really made me think about how compassionate, understanding and …
Unity and Consistency
A group of MBA students from Brenau University toured several of my companies yesterday. According to Dr. Bill Lightfoot, Dean of the College of Business and Mass Communications, our vertically integrated family of companies are something of a rarity in our area, so the students were excited to see firsthand what we do in our …
Gregory Hake 