“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller The world's greatest achievers are those men and women who …
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The Good Fight
Modern medicine suffers from the same crippling ideology as modern Christianity. In both, the obsession with resisting evil, of rallying against the bad to protect the good, prevents them from seeing the problems of man's physical health and his spiritual nature clearly. Christianity veered from the template established by Jesus Christ almost as soon as …
Being Yourself
In life you can either strive to become something as many have done through history, or you can do as those precious few sages who walked the earth did and stop trying to become so that you can begin being yourself. Become something and at the end of life you'll feel you've achieved something, perhaps …
As we Are
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anaïs Nin If self-consciousness distorts the perception of reality, then unselfconsciousness removes the lenses which color perception. The moment you step into a situation with a concern for self, an interest in personal gain, you lose touch with reality and begin seeing …
Defining the Goal
The first step in solving any problem is to define a proper goal. This is as true in training horses as it is in delivering health care. In the case of training horses, the rider has the opportunity - each and every time he works with the horse - to prolong the horse's soundness, improve …
Guiding Principle
In every industry there is a guiding principle. Properly heeded, this principle informs and guides its participants from glory unto glory. When ignored or overshadowed by other lesser principles, the industry can only hope for limited success, if any at all. The guiding principle is not the same in every industry, but it does and …
Art and Science
Art and Science, a poem by Gregg Hake Art and science when aligned give form to hidden truth, But once divorced or set at odds they lose the bloom of youth. So why do men insist upon a fight to prove their worth, For when allied they do much more than create hell on earth.
A Matter of Time
My eldest son asked an interesting question while we were driving home from my boys' horse riding lesson yesterday evening. Out of the blue he asked, "Daddy, why when you see things in slow motion do you want to stop the bad things from happening even more?" Not quite sure what he meant, I asked …
Just Deserts
As I mentioned yesterday, George Washington wrote out a copy of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation“, a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. I've been reading through them and found another that you might enjoy today: 65th Speak …
Rules of Civility
George Washington wrote out a copy of "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation", a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. They're all quite interesting and useful, but one in particular stood out to me today: 89th Speak not Evil …
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