Attitudes are skills.*
Seth Godin
For when I catch myself
with poor attitude:
Am I being humble? –
No more and no less
than who I am–
Am I being grateful? –
Aware of all I have, though
may not own–
Am I being faithful? –
Seeking opportunities
to offer who I am and
what I have for
another–
*Seth Godin’s blog: Notes to myself.
Wherever you are right now,
Observation is free–
Powerful for turning a minute
into a moment.
Every so often,
I’ll be sharing
a portion of the images**
from my colouring book
Slow Journeys in
the Same Direction–
You’re welcome
to print these
for colouring in–
Not quite a labyrinth
but they’ll slow you down.
To see the world clearly is one kind of bravery. To see ourselves clearly is another.*
AleXander McManus
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anymore, because where I am folded, I am a lie.**
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not about
what I will be when
unfolded–
I doubt I will
ever see this
in one lifetime–
But it is in
my willingness
to unfold, sometimes
to be unfolded–
Openness as a state
for encountering
the brave
and generous and
enlightened life.
*AleXander McManus’ Blue Moments;
**Quoted in Anne Lamott’s Hallelujah Anyway.
creativity is a journey, not a destination*
Bernadette Jiwa
Creativity is
your natural state–
Believing it has to look
like this or that, or have
certain freedoms
hides this from you–
It looks like you,
And your limitations are
why and how
you are creative–
Maybe stop to notice then
follow what you see.
*Bernadette Jiwa’s The Story Of Telling blog: Creativity Is A Journey.
Outdated maps might be worth less than no map at all.*
Seth Godin
I confess,
I like maps–
They’re works of art
inviting me to stop and gaze,
And then I keep them well beyond
their sell by date,
including the maps about me–
Perhaps it’s time to pick up
the compass
of my talents, energies, and values
again.
*Seth Godin’s blog: Notes to myself.
We must stay open-minded to have any mind at all.
Nothing opens the mind like the glimpse of new possibility.*
John O’Donohue
*John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty.
Thin Silence is not the past and not yet the future.
Every so often,
I’ll be sharing
a portion of the images**
from my colouring book
Slow Journeys in
the Same Direction–
You’re welcome
to print these
for colouring in–
Not quite a labyrinth
but they’ll slow you down.
Based on Casey and Jung‘s models, it is possible to see how an increasingly complex and rich imagination could reach a point where the mind forgets about the everyday world and experiences what it is imagining, as vividly, or even more so, as it does the real world.*
John Higgs
Two human worlds– though some
prefer one more than the other,
We need both.
There is imagination and
myth where we are
little-heroes and artists–
There is the everyday and
transactional where we are
workers and parents and partners–
Figuring out our unique means of
interplanetary travel is critical
lest we become a castaway.
John Higgs’ William Blake Vs The World.
Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel like you are a nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance …*
Martin Luther King
Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which all self-respect springs.**
Joan Didion
Through ancient ways
and means, and
with impartiality,
The universe has declared
you to be somebody (Ta dah!)–
Now to embrace this,
To be specific
and unrepeatable,
To declare your talents and
energies and values,
To begin what will prove to be
your unfolding adventure:
You start with your 1, and then you suspend judgement on what you’re doing, because you don’t know what you have when you start. No one does.^
*Quoted in Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy;
**Quoted in Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^Rob Bell’s How To Be Here.
I saw how Jesus answered every question he’s asked with a question: What do you think? How do you read it? How do you interpret it? What do you say about it? This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don’t ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves.*
Rob Bell
I read every question as a matter of duty. It’s beautiful, actually, a beautiful thing to do.**
Nick Cave
Without the question
my journey is over,
I am over–
To be curious
takes effort, but it is
the effort of breathing–
*Rob Bell’s Everything Is Spiritual;
**Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files: #371.
THIN|SILENCE 
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