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...
July 2011
6 posts
“The electron-scanning microscope, with the ability to magnify several thousand...”
– George Leonard - “The Silent Pulse”
April 2011
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February 2011
1 post
“In order to practice the inner disciplines you must first cultivate “three...”
January 2011
1 post
“I really enjoyed our sessions. You were really able to get to the heart of...”
– Sue C.
August 2010
2 posts
“From the point of view of the thinking mind, it takes courage to embrace not...”
– Eckhart Tolle
“In the absence of stillness your life will manifest insanity in many forms.”
– Eckhart Tolle
May 2010
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March 2010
1 post
“Stress is two forces moving in opposite directions. Sit still.”
– Buddhist proverb
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)
“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths...”
– John Scharr, in Loyalty in America
“If conflict is a message hand delivered to your door, a good start is to accept...”
– Restorative Circles (http://twitter.com/restoracircles)
“Freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause...”
– Unattributed
January 2010
5 posts
“When I’m trusting & being myself as fully as possible, everything...”
– Shakti Gawain
“Never walk when you can dance.”
– Marshall Rosenberg
“Fear is just excitement without the breathing.”
– Fritz Perls.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet...”
– Rumi, quoted in Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication.
“Tomorrow, I’m going to Scotland to fight the bad people there.”
– Tilly
December 2009
1 post
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our...”
– Dan Milman, via @aikidostudent
November 2009
2 posts
“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions...”
– Eckhart Tolle (@eckhart_tolle) via Twitter
“The most important thing I’ve learned about conflict is that it’s...”
– @mikhaill, via RestoraCircles.
October 2009
2 posts
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies
We should find in each man’s...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of...”
– The Buddha
September 2009
7 posts
“Sharing with others does not deplete your resources.”
– Akira Tohei, MAC Founder
“Like an ice-laden dagger thrust into the small of my back, your lack of empathy...”
– http://qik.com/cyborgkitten via Twitter
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the...”
– Alfred Adler
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and...”
– The Buddha
“If you want to effect change, then it is important to embody that change.”
– Wendy Palmer
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why
“Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the...”
– (Chuang Tsu, Taoist teacher and poet)
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
“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
“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
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.)
“Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person,...”
– Aristotle, in The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates...”
– Nelson Mandela
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust...”
– Alfred Adler
“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.
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.
“wherever the art of centering is practiced, things change dramatically.”
– Thomas Crum, quoted in Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict
“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
“When distracted from the true purposes in our lives, we frequently find...”
– Roger Cole, author of The Creative Imperative: Unravel the Mystery of Creativity
“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
“It only takes two words to recommend him: James rocks.
His calmness under...”
– Tim West, Executive Producer, Good Technology