This poem and image brought to mind many of the thoughts that emerged with David Whyte. We are the authors of our lives, but there is uncertainty as we look and step forward with each step.
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Listen
This is central to a couple papers I am working on while I take my break from actively blogging this week. Silence is the space where things happen for us.
Silence is rich. It is dark and viscous and it flows on waves of nothingness. Silence begs to be filled and filled it must be. It is lonely and demanding and chill to the touch but it tastes smooth like the breeze. Silence is an opulent black pearl and one of the rarest gems on Earth.
There is a simple profoundness that can be found in the absence of sound. The emptiness that silence provides often gives rise to thought–the deep kind. The sort that give birth to leaps of logic and flights of the imagination. Silence is the canvas on which beautiful art can be created. It sits and waits patiently.
Silence isn’t in a hurry. It doesn’t need to explain itself or impress anyone or anything. It just is. It is the essence of cool.
I love silence. I crave it even. It is sorely needed in this…
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What day is it?
I am back online I think. It has been a hectic few days getting home and catching up in various ways with everyone here. It feels like hump day and a little humour is in order. I love these ads by Geico.
Life means
This is a little in the day, but here is a wonderful poem about the need to create hope and divine spirits with our children.
Let us
seed hopes
in the minds of children to fly like birds
Let us
kindle divine spirits
in the hearts of children to glow the world like sun
Life means to love and to live in every moment of time
……………………………advocatemmmohan
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Emily Dickinson
This post reminded me of cumulative effect within nature. When we look at the waterfall. we do not see the drops which make it up. When we look at the drops, we do not yet see the waterfall.
Today, like eve…
What a beautiful sentiment by Rumi.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.~ Rumi
Sacred
We need to weave the sacred throughout our day. That line caught my attention. When I take time and mindfully navigate my way through the day, it makes all the difference in the world.
“Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
The sacred quiet of the morning. Time to reflect, restore and simply be.
I have been pulled a hundred directions this week, starting projects and getting pulled to something else. Bouncing from one thing to the next. Each day, I had the intention of writing an article that’s due next week, to get ahead and meet the deadline. Everytime I started, I got interrupted by an email popping up, the phone or someone coming in my office. And spending five to ten minutes isn’t enough to allow ideas and thoughts that connect to unfold. This morning, I have gotten more done in the past thirty minutes than the last thirty hours.
We need to weave “the sacred” through each day. To quietly be in awe, floating in gratitude and connected to our life. To objectively observe instead…
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Palm Tree, poem by Rabindranath Tagore
If only it had wings. What a beautiful line.
PALM TREE (Excerpt)
by Rabindranath Tagore
Palm tree, single-legged giant,
topping other trees,
peering at the firmament –
It longs to pierce the black cloud-celing
and fly away, away,
if only it had wings.
Photo: Chris Palmer
It has been a late start to the day. I met with a colleague to begin preparing a presentation for next month. I am just getting settled into the normal routine. This is a wonderful set of guidelines for any day.
1. One should either find a way or make a way.
2. Never let defeat have the last word.
3. To aim is not enough, must hit.
4.Winning is not everything but the effort to win is.
5. Success is a destination, not a journey.
6. Failure is an event, not a person.
7. There is no substitute for hard work.
8. Insincerity is manipulative.
9. Take time to quiet.
10. The secret of concentration is the secret of life.
11. One must be on top of change lest change will be on top of that one.
12. Human beings can do all things only when wills to do.
The problem with effectiveness
I apologize for not posting last night, but it was a class night and things got crazy with time or its absence. Parker Palmer is one of my favourite authors and David at The Jog shared this wonderful video about a need for new measures in life. Take care and enjoy a wonderful day.
We have become obsessed with effectiveness which, according to Parker Palmer, means that we take on smaller tasks. For the bigger tasks, like love, mercy and peace we need a different measure. That measure is faithfulness.
From effectiveness to faithfulness from Center for Courage & Renewal on Vimeo.
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