You know a book is going to be interesting when its preface is riveting. William Steinkraus' prefatory comments to Lt. Col. A. L. D'Endrödy's excellent work on equitation "Give Your Horse a Chance" provides powerful insight into how to be more effective in living. Steinkraus noted: "It is ironic that so many of the people …
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Calm, Forward, Straight
As a living, breathing human being, you are an animate creature, capable of orienting in, being motivated by and coloring your expression with a wide variety of spirits. The spirit which compels or dominates your expression in any given moment gives evidence to the true centering of your heart, regardless of what you believe mentally …
The Spirit of the Method
The old and familiar maxim: "Knowledge is Power" shapes the way we look at education, marketing, politics, religion and many other areas of human activity. The idea that knowledge begets power is based on the limited view that humanity is meant to dominate his environment, rather than have dominion over it. Domination is established through …
Forward-Upward!
Circumstances have a wonderful way of letting you know if you're on the right or the wrong track. They provide useful feedback that, thoughtfully reviewed, compels changes in approach or direction and occasionally in underlying orientation. Those in the habit of bemoaning their circumstances often miss these cues as they are so busy reacting to …
Kronos and Kairos
Kronos (Κρόνος) is an ancient Greek word meaning chronological or sequential time. It is measured by clocks, we tend to race against it and somewhere along the way we began to equate it with money. While virtually everything in modern civilization hangs upon this word, there is another type of time that is often overlooked, …
Facing the Mistakes of Life IX
"Right principles are vital and primary. They bring the maximum of profit from mistakes, reduce the loss to a minimum. False pride perpetuates our mistakes, deters us from confessing them, debars us from repairing them and ceasing them. Man’s attitude towards his mistakes is various and peculiar; some do not see them; some will not …
It’s about time…
A friend of mine sent me a short email yesterday about the origin of April Fools' Day. Apparently Pope Gregory XIII signed a papal bull on February 4, 1582 declaring a shift from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar, which is the calendar we use today, corrected an error in the previous Julian …
Gregory Hake 