September 2011
1 post
Were I a Greek goddess
Time has come for one of my periodic re-thinks of my web presence - blogs, linkedin, twitter, facebook. All these seem to have emerged haphazardly, some talking to this, others to that.  I’m somewhat overwhelmed by my various personalities on display - aspects of me, without ever adding up to me. A clean start is called for. Were I a Greek goddess, you might catch a glimpse of an erotic...
Sep 5th
July 2011
6 posts
Jul 17th
Jul 15th
Jul 14th
Jul 14th
Jul 8th
“The electron-scanning microscope, with the ability to magnify several thousand...”
– George Leonard - “The Silent Pulse”
Jul 7th
April 2011
1 post
Apr 3rd
February 2011
1 post
“In order to practice the inner disciplines you must first cultivate “three...”
Feb 22nd
January 2011
1 post
“I really enjoyed our sessions. You were really able to get to the heart of...”
– Sue C.
Jan 17th
August 2010
2 posts
“From the point of view of the thinking mind, it takes courage to embrace not...”
– Eckhart Tolle
Aug 22nd
“In the absence of stillness your life will manifest insanity in many forms.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Aug 22nd
May 2010
1 post
May 29th
March 2010
1 post
“Stress is two forces moving in opposite directions. Sit still.”
– Buddhist proverb
Mar 15th
February 2010
4 posts
“If you want reality to be different than it is right now, you might as well try...”
– Byron Katie on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ByronKatie/status/9587505161)
Feb 25th
“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths...”
– John Scharr, in Loyalty in America
Feb 19th
“If conflict is a message hand delivered to your door, a good start is to accept...”
– Restorative Circles (http://twitter.com/restoracircles)
Feb 11th
“Freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause...”
– Unattributed
Feb 5th
January 2010
5 posts
“When I’m trusting & being myself as fully as possible, everything...”
– Shakti Gawain
Jan 28th
“Never walk when you can dance.”
– Marshall Rosenberg
Jan 22nd
“Fear is just excitement without the breathing.”
– Fritz Perls.
Jan 20th
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet...”
– Rumi, quoted in Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication.
Jan 20th
“Tomorrow, I’m going to Scotland to fight the bad people there.”
– Tilly
Jan 2nd
December 2009
1 post
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our...”
– Dan Milman, via @aikidostudent
Dec 22nd
November 2009
2 posts
“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions...”
– Eckhart Tolle (@eckhart_tolle) via Twitter
Nov 14th
“The most important thing I’ve learned about conflict is that it’s...”
– @mikhaill, via RestoraCircles.
Nov 10th
October 2009
2 posts
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies We should find in each man’s...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oct 23rd
“All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of...”
– The Buddha
Oct 15th
September 2009
7 posts
“Sharing with others does not deplete your resources.”
– Akira Tohei, MAC Founder
Sep 30th
“Like an ice-laden dagger thrust into the small of my back, your lack of empathy...”
– http://qik.com/cyborgkitten via Twitter
Sep 28th
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the...”
– Alfred Adler
Sep 27th
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and...”
– The Buddha
Sep 25th
“If you want to effect change, then it is important to embody that change.”
– Wendy Palmer
Sep 23rd
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why
Sep 2nd
“Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the...”
– (Chuang Tsu, Taoist teacher and poet)
Sep 2nd
August 2009
3 posts
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Aug 24th
“If you want to see the stars you have to venture out into the dark”
– Roger Cole in The Creative Imperative: Unravel the Mystery of Creativity
Aug 20th
“The chemistry of the body is inseparable from the chemistry of the brain....”
– Twyla Tharp, in The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Aug 17th
July 2009
15 posts
“The best way to get something done is to begin.”
– (Author unknown, but particular appropriate for me as most of this wonderful week has slipped by without me taking advantage of it.)
Jul 24th
“Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person,...”
– Aristotle, in The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
Jul 20th
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates...”
– Nelson Mandela
Jul 16th
Jul 15th
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust...”
– Alfred Adler
Jul 15th
“And as you begin to discover how to move in the direction you desire, engaging...”
– Paolo Coelho, in The Alchemist, quoted in The Magic of Metaphor by Nick Owen.
Jul 13th
God is slightly gay →
[Homosexual] behavior is definitely not, as so many hard-line Christian literalists want to believe, some sort of poison that snuck into God’s perfect cake mix, … suddenly causing all creatures to occasionally feel the urge wear glitter and listen to techno and work on their abs.
Jul 10th
“wherever the art of centering is practiced, things change dramatically.”
– Thomas Crum, quoted in Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict
Jul 10th
“The big lie has been that you don’t really matter. We have created a society...”
– Corrina Gordon-Barnes, in The World needs your Passion
Jul 9th
“When distracted from the true purposes in our lives, we frequently find...”
– Roger Cole, author of The Creative Imperative: Unravel the Mystery of Creativity
Jul 8th
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C., via ThinkExist
Jul 7th
“It only takes two words to recommend him: James rocks. His calmness under...”
– Tim West, Executive Producer, Good Technology
Jul 14th