To my surprise, when I was given permission to doubt the factuality of my beliefs, I discovered their actual life-giving purpose.*
Brian McLaren
There’s a time for certainty
and a time for doubt–
How do you know this isn’t
a time to doubt?
*Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.
When you live a life of obligation it steals from your strengths. Wisdom allows you to harness your strength.*
Erwin McManus
Life is short.
Be good. Do good.
Love and be loved.
Try to leave the place better than you found it.
Do the right thing.
Right now.**
Ryan Holiday
Wrong people,
Wrong path,
Wrong cause,
Wrong self–
Right people,
Right path,
Right cause,
Right self–
More than enough,
A noble life,
Living obligation,
Bringing your alchemy–
*Erwin McManus’ The Way Of The Warrior;
**Ryan Holiday’s Right Thing, Right Now.
Contemplation is meeting as much reality as we can handle in its most simple and immediate form – without filters, judgements, or commentaries.*
Brian McLaren
Familiarity breeds love, not contempt.**
Edward Slingerland
Aw, but I like my shortcuts
to understanding and knowing;
Oh well, maybe getting lost
in something or someone
will have some benefit–
*Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt;
**Edward Slingerland’s Trying Not To Try.
Spirit needs form.
That was the giant truth I was feeling my way into.
Spirit needs form,
and form needs Spirit.
That was the other truth I was finding my way into.
Both are needed.*
Rob Bell
This may be the hardest of skills
I am learning:
That what comes new to me
and what prompts change for me
appearing in pictures or words
must become a first expression
and eventually an openness of form
urging more pictures and words–
*Rob Bell’s Everything Is Spiritual.
Shallow happy is pursuing pleasure.
Deep happy is pursuing fulfilment.*
Derek Sivers
When we lose our tolerance for discomfort, we lose joy.**
Brené Brown
Strange how happy starts me full and leaves me empty
whilst joy starts me empty and leaves me full–
*Derek Sivers’ How To Live;
**Brené Brown’s The Gifts Of Imperfection.
Great teachers set it up, and great students find the aha.* Sooner or later, we’re all self taught.**
Seth Godin
Use other people’s ideas.
Ideas are worth almost nothing.
Execution is everything…
Better to be filled with action than ideas.^^
Derek Sivers
To open ourselves up
to learning in body, heart, and soul
(as well as mind)
is one of the most
powerful things we can do.
*Seth Godin’s blog: Don’t steal the revelation;
**Seth Godin’s blog: Aha!;
^Derek Sivers’ How To Live.
He had no notion of the preciousness of life – the fragility. He had no idea how difficult, but essential, it is to love the world and to treat the world with mercy. And like I said, he had no idea what was coming down the road. He was entirely innocent of all that.*
Nick Cave
There is inherent sadness and tragedy in almost all situations: in our relationships, our mistakes, our failures large and small, and even our victories … grief and sadness are doorways to understanding life in a non egocentric way.**
Richard Rohr
I cringe when I think of some of what I did
or thought or said when I was younger
and what I avoided, too,
And I hope I’ll still be cringing in the future
when I think about now,
Meaning I’ll still be learning,
Becoming–
*Nick Cave’s Faith, Hope and Carnage; describing himself as a young man;
**Richard Rohr’s The Tears Of Things.
Remember, once you eliminate what you wish would happen or what you think should happen, then it becomes clear that the particular is where the ultimate and the universal have the chance to appear, in a moment of time and space, and become concrete.**
Bill Barrett and Dave Evans
*Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’ How To Live A Meaningful Life.
On the journey toward “true home,” though we may, from time to time, turn back to record or measure from whence we came, we do not turn back in order to turn back.*
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
*Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With The Wolves.
I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the anecdotes, rationalisations, and episodes we tell, and see us in a noble struggle.*
David Brooks
If you would come closer
and listen, then you no longer
are information or even knowledge–
You are wisdom to me.
*David Brooks’ How To Know A Person.
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