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 [...]
I asked a client what her biggest challenge now was, with a new baby and an entrepreneurial career. She said time.
I am often asked how I manage time with 3 busy kids, a self-employed husband and my own busy coaching business. I thought about what I could say different about time management, that hadn’t already been said [...]
Alan Watts wants to make sure you don’t miss the point:
What I first examined what it would mean to have a perfect life, I had many discussions about perfect. Once people accepted the idea, they tried to imagine what it would be like.
One of the benefits of a perfect life is that you feel terrific almost all of the time, without artificial stimulants and without the [...]