A friend of mine, recently reminded me…
Silence isn’t empty;
If it were, we wouldn’t hear it so loudly
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the warmth in the burn
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
Rumi
I think you see what I see but you see what you see I think
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
imagine that
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, but imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
a different perspective
If you don’t like something, change it.
If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
Life sometimes throws up simple things which frustrate us, or annoy us, or frighten us.
Like having to wait in a queue when we want to get somewhere, or getting caught in the rain without a coat or umbrella.
We can allow these things to grasp us, to own us if you will. The displeasure, discomfort or disquiet with the situation becomes more than it warrants. Whereas we have choice. We could see that rain shower as a wonderful chance to connect with nature, that queue as a chance to be with our own thoughts or to meet someone new.
Changing the way we think about it, changes how we feel. Thoughts lead to feelings.
So think differently. Feel differently.
breath is the bridge…
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
Thich Nhat Hanh
freedom within
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
self effacing superiority?
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
Golda Meir
not what, but how
When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequences
All too often we focus on the end game. The result. The success. The failure. The implications. The achievement. The gain. The outcome. The goal. The consequences.
How we get there though, colours the outcome. It is the ‘how’ that people notice and the ‘how’ that people remember. It is the ‘how’ that affirms alignment to our values.
life will be violent, all will be lost
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
Charles Chaplin
(speech from the Jewish barber in The Great Dictator)
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