My cello teacher made an interesting point yesterday in relation to my bowing, which now that I think about it, is actually quite a good life principle. She said: "When you change direction, do so with purpose as it creates intent where there is typically hesitancy or stumbling." How true this is! In all of …
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Perception
"If we start to examine the general laws of perception, we see that as perception becomes habitual, it becomes automatic. Thus, for example, all of our habits retreat into the area of the unconsciously automatic; if one remembers the sensations of holding a pen or of speaking in a foreign language for the first time …
Prophecy
To those who would like to see the future, think how hard it is to handle the present moment effectively, that is, with an untroubled heart. Moreover, think how often you find yourself wallowing in the past, disturbed by former failures and disappointments. Imagine if the shadows of the future were dancing around your head …
Minotaur of Conscience
Minotaur of Conscience by Gregg Hake Minotaur of conscience, Stampeding through the maze; Looking for the answer, He eats the young and prays. Troubled by the conflict Of knots he can't unwind; His coats of skin torment him And keep his soul confined. "Release me from this prison!" He cries out to his God; Not …
Good Intentions
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, …
The Death of Fear
"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." - Ralph Waldo Emerson While we may never fully eradicate fear from these coats of skin we inhabit, we can go along way to banishing self-imposed fears which limit the unabridged expression of our being. Now you cannot simply say to yourself: "I …
The Torment of Precautions
"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny." - Napoleon Bonaparte The notion of abandoning oneself to destiny is an interesting one. It implies an active yielding to something larger than oneself, a hidden power which has bearing upon one's fate. This …
A Daring Adventure
“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 …
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 …
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