How you feel about yourself is reflected in how you treat others. Despite all that’s going on around you…or inside you…you always get to choose how you want to respond. I love this Pharrell song because it reminds me that “caint nothing bring me down…my level’s too high to bring me down…because I’m happy!” :) – Read More –
September 2013
CHOOSE HAPPY :)
WHY I SLOWED DOWN
Sometimes I think I was born with a need for speed :) I appreciate fast cars, fast bikes, and I find myself making fast friends. (Ironically, I walk slowly and get a headache/zone out if someone is talking too fast haha) I love to get work done quickly, and found that I was always bouncing – Read More –
LOOKING FOR A SIGN
During a momentous battle, a Japanese general decided to attack even though his army was greatly outnumbered. He was confident they would win, but his men were filled with doubt. On the way to the battle, they stopped at a religious shrine. After praying with the men, the general took out a coin and said, – Read More –
WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
If you take a step back (to gain better perspective), it is pretty laughable that we routinely feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders. We believe that without us everything will stop…nothing will work…or that people will make catastrophically horrible decisions and ruin lives if we don’t intervene. Ok, sure, this might be true some of – Read More –
BECOME A LION
GO WITH THE FLOW
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive. “I accommodated myself to the water, – Read More –
RABIA
Rabia of Basra (C. 717-801), a Sufi Saint, and perhaps the first to introduce the concept of Divine Love…that one should not love God for fear of Hell or the promise of Heaven but that God should be loved for God’s own sake. Rabia was born 500 years before Rumi, and was perhaps the greatest influence – Read More –