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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor RooseveltContinue reading “Can Do”

“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The tricksterContinue reading “Crying Laughing”

“Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish now is what my nature wills.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “If we do not transform our pain, we will mostContinue reading “Write It. But Don’t Send It.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “You’ll find your answer in action, not research.” -Paul Shirley ‘”As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” -Rumi When you have an idea that lights you up, rather thanContinue reading “Walk…The Way”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” -Stephen Covey “Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.” -Mark Cuban Before you can keep the main thing the main thing, youContinue reading “The Main Thing?”

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” -Alexander Pope “When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger.” -Marcus Aurelius “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” -Hanlon’s Razor “How much betterContinue reading “Let Them Know”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” -Picasso “We think, ‘I’m good because I obey this commandment, because I do this kind of work, or because I belong to this group.’ That’s the calculus the ego understands. The human psyche, all organizations, and governments need thisContinue reading “Know The Rules So You Can Break The Rules”

“My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.” -Pablo Picasso I highly encourage you to read George Bothamley’s recent post on Picasso’s Guernica painting which you can do Here. As well as subscribe to his “Art Every Day” Substack. (I’ve recommended it prior.) One sublimeContinue reading “Guernica”

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” -Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow We’re not as rational as we think. Just look back on all your past decisions and actions, and the thinking (or lack of it) behind them. Some wereContinue reading “We’re Not As Rational As We Think”

Speaking of meditating and being still, one idea that might help (my good friend Z passed this on to me)… Picture your monkey mind and anxious thoughts as just foam. To get to the good stuff, to get to the beer, you’ve first got to pour out the foam. So let those thoughts just pourContinue reading “The Foam and The Beer”