All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement towards death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.* Richard Rohr
If your output isn’t where you want it to be, try working on your input.** Austin Kleon
Forgiveness knows me and knows my need, Feeding my heart and mind and even my body, It remains and always will be my good beginning and necessary end–
Love is a combination of attention, appreciation, and empathy.* Derek Sivers
One way to understand the numinous right hemisphere is that it manages life’s complexity. Complex challenges in life are easy to understand but impossible to solve, so they can only be lived and understood.** Arthur Brooks
More than a puzzle to solve, or ignore, You are a complexity, And this whole thing works better when we meet and listen and share and explore– Over a drink or taking a walk or working on some project– A real heart-to-heart, As they say.
Love, I would say, is that capacity which allows him to grasp the other human being in his very uniqueness.^
Ego breaks open – then you see what you really are.* Ram Dass
The ego is initially born into us as potential, and is shaped, developed and filled up with ideas, values, and duties by the world around us, our parents, our teachers, our culture. And this is how it should be, for it becomes our escort, our armour, our scout in the outer world. However, if the wildest nature is not allowed to emanate upward through the ego, giving it colour, juice, and instinctive responsiveness…the soul does not, cannot, will not approve such incompleteness of its work.** Clarissa Pinkola Estés
In my beginning I am Echo, In my growing I am Ego, In my becoming I am Self: Dependent, independent, Interdependent.
I am no clean progression– I hope to be Self but sometimes I am Ego, And I may even be Echo.
Yet there remains in me and all a wild nature or soul– Some say this is god’s image, Others say it is nature’s image, urging Me and you and us towards all we can be.
I’m not an exceptional person, but I am a grower. I do have the ability to look at my shortcomings, then try to prod myself into becoming more fully developed human being. I’ve made progress over these years.* David Brooks
It takes an initial tender vulnerability (“wounding”) to defeat our ego and to open us to full consciousness – which must include the scary unconscious.** Richard Rohr
I am returning to a place I once lived and worked twenty five years ago– Being pushed out was painful, Though I am now glad for the wounding– Learning from mistakes and forgiving, I have grown – no, I have become a grower– I have such a long way to go–
Make visible what without you may never have been seen.* Robert Bresson
Tomorrow keeps arriving. Perhaps we can use a strategy to make it better.** Seth Godin
Each a unique perspective- Making something visible to others– Picture or music, Environment or person, Delivery or scientific … First, the future feeds today in imagination– Then, today feeds the future in activeness– The future is strong in you–
When you withhold your compassion from yourself, you withhold your gifts and unique presence from others…You can’t be as patient, creative, strong, loving, or reliable when you’re punishing yourself – you can’t be you.* Katherine Morgan Schafler
It is through imagination, Blake promises us, that we will be redeemed.** John Higgs
You’ve already been freed, Now it’s time to free yourself, Not to ignore whatever it is that causes you to be hard on yourself, but to face this with a liberated imagination to be fully with us here giving–
It remains the dream of every life to realise itself, to reach out and lift oneself to greater heights. A life that continues to remain on the safe side of its own habits and repetition never engages with the risk of its own possibility, remains an unlived life.* John O’Donohue
We learned lots of very valuable skills, but we weren’t taught how to be here, how to be fully present in this moment, how to not be distracted or stressed or worried or anxious, but just be here, and nowhere else – wide awake to the infinite depth and dimension of this exact moment.** Rob Bell
You won’t find them on the school curriculum or the training courses for your work, But your kind of magic and mystery are only a moment away–
Another world for the particular is moment … .** Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
True wholeness brings the inner and the outer together, the personal and collective, the soul of the individual and the soul of Earth united.^ Philip Newell
Am I ready? I brace myself for today’s reality– The deeper reality beyond the reality– Life invites me to be here– To be here in this moment and to be open– To be open to what is wanting to emerge– Emerging between me and the world– Emerging between me and you– Emerging between me and me–
To be able to walk into the street and to see in the most ordinary things, even a shadow, something that gives you this aesthetic thrill is marvellous. It enriches life.^^
If you’re going to walk away [from AI], the path is clear. Your work has to become more unpredictable, more human and more nuanced.* Seth Godin
I invented ideas early on; I synthesise ideas – mine and others – now.** Arthur Brooks
I read the information leaflet that accompanies technology: It appears there can be many unpleasant side effects– The leaflet continues: to counteract these, I must take more time and make more of an effort to know you, to feel the Earth, And to quietly connect with myself– Perhaps we could meet soon?
You are your actions. Your actions are you. Your self-image doesn’t matter as much. When you realise what you need to do, it doesn’t mean that’s who you need to be. You can just pretend.* Derek Sivers
I learned so much about art from watching a kid draw … kids don’t call it art when they’re throwing things around, drawing – they’re just doing stuff.** John Baldessari
Rehearsing our self-stories into action– Pretending is how we begin– It’s how we learn– It’s practising doing stuff– Without permission– Life is all pretend and practise– The list of what we can do becomes endless–
THIN|SILENCE 
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