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© karanj with CCLicense When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lao Tzu
© Greg Willis with CCLicense If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. —Lao Tzu
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what kept him alive while others drowned was telling himself stories...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Richard Adams
Rabbit’s Getaway© Katherine McDaniel, 2015 Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleQuote for Today: Wallace J. Nichols
I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Brian Eno
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jean Webster
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ronan Farrow
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things. --Ronan...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Vera Nazarian
We are all glorified motion sensors. Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change. We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Daniel Pink
Most important, in flow, the relationship between what a person had to do and what he could do was perfect. The challenge wasn’t too easy. Nor was it too difficult. It was a notch or two beyond his...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Doug Wilhelm
The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #25: The Covid-19 Fugue by Nicholas Papadimitriou
Day 25 of the Globe-travelling Travel Series takes us to Amsterdam, where composer Nicholas Papadimitriou, born in Athens, Greece, has used his quarantine time to create an impressive and satisfying...
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When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It’s none of...
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