Get unstuck and shift into your next level.
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
Albert Schweitzer
Neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (see the previous post for more about her) discovered that an emotion can only exist by itself for 90 seconds, after that it requires thoughts to sustain it.
Also interesting, it’s not
This talk blew me away. Insight into how the brain works, but much more than that, who and what we truly are:
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I began training martial arts in July 2004, just before my 23rd birthday. It quickly took over my life, and while the level of intensity in my training has waxed and waned with time, my passion and commitment to martial arts has not.
I write this on an upswing,
I asked God if it was okay to sing at the top of my lungs
and she said yes
I asked her if I could climb mountains
and paint silk and love furry animals and and and
and she said, of course you can
I asked if it was okay to have big dreams,
dreams that feel bigger than me,
and
“There’s a moment in fighting when (you realize) the enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.”
— Toba Beta
To the best of my ability I present a recent lesson from my Tai Chi class:
Teacher: As your opponent moves in, accept their energy as though it were your own. As you physically drop inward, energetically
Most people who know me know I’ve been a devoted Beatles fan since I was 13 years old. Before I discovered them, I mostly ignored music and didn’t understand the attraction (mine is not a musical family). Before I knew what was happening, The Beatles opened my heart and mind to the power of
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
Jonathan Edwards
I said to my teacher, “I do not trust the world. It is prone to earthquakes. With a
A major aspect of my business is influenced by the belief that people can make happiness the primary goal of work, rather than money. The truth is money is an energy designed to support whatever system you put it into. My awareness is that if we concentrate on promoting and sustaining happiness in the
I feel shaken open, as though my heart were broken into and there are no words to speak.
I’m in love with the world, the people, the animals, the essence of life. I want to be numb but I’m not. I want to be angry but I don’t know how. I’ve been thinking a lot
“What is a problem?”
“That which believes it is.”
Someone recently asked me to do a reading on what was wrong with him. He was very earnest in his desire to improve his life, and knew improvement had to come from within. So he directed me to hold nothing back and really delve into what he
