Reading No Water No Moon, Osho presented the following story:
Once it happened, a great prime minister of a very great emperor died. The prime minister was rare, very intelligent, almost wise, very cunning, shrewd, a great diplomat, and it was very difficult to find a substitute. The whole kingdom was searched. All the minsters were [...]
I was reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and I related to the idea of writing on what is directly in front of you. Then this blog post from Charlie at Productive Flourishing that brought the world into perspective through a one inch frame:
At one point, I happened to look up. Above me were some [...]
There are no ancients before me,
No followers behind:
Only the vastness of heaven and earth
On this mountain terrace.
Though heaven may know the ultimate,
Joy or sorrow is our will.
Sitting in solitude this morning, reading 365 Tao Daily Meditations, I was struck by the honesty and simplicity of this wisdom. The passage went on
to say:
We stand alone [...]
Julia Cameron believes that an artist date should have a permanent spotin your weekly calendar. I found myself succumbing to a Starbucks-and-Chapters ritual artist date. I don’t think that was the general idea.
Then, I stumbled on Keri Smith’s How to be an explorer of the world, on one of those dates.
Keri has encouraged me to [...]
In my work as a coach, my clients are often stopped from achieving their perfect life because of fear.
I love this quote from Osho, in Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously:
Why are you afraid? What can the world do to you? People can laugh at you, it will do them good–laughter is always a medicine, [...]
I have a number of things open on my desk that are to inspire me to write. I took a cue out of my new book addition to my creative idea-generator, The Awe-Manac by Jill Badonsky. It was to write something about poetry.
If my life so far was a poem. I am not sure what [...]
Henry David Thoreau had me question my work this morning. I am reading Walden. To write this book, he left behind modern conveniences and found life. In his chapter on Economy, he wrote
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming [...]
I was struggling today to slog through my list of tasks and I was feeling more and more weight on my shoulders. Then I discovered this prose:
…the primal cause of that inconvenient dissatisfaction is the feeling that you are every day leaving undone something which you would like to do, and which, indeed, you are [...]
I am reading The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum through DailyLit.com who sends me a little snippet every morning so I can keep up with my reading.
This morning I read:
Habit is second nature.
I thought about all the things we consider habits: smoking (which P.T. Barnum referred to), eating at a particular time, eating certain [...]
I got an new desk recently and my husband noticed that I have expanded the work around me to fill the space. One of the things that I am doing is bringing more books into my space.
These are the books that I can see on my desk:
Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed by [...]
