The artist rarely says, “I’d like to do less.” Instead, she wonders how to contribute more, because the very act of creativity is the point of the work.* Seth Godin
True perseverance … is flanked by the ancient values: courage and values.** Anna Katharina Schaffner
To contribute is the point, The desire to give and somehow, somewhere, for someone to make things better, Beautiful, even, Something mythical, leaving us in no doubt that we are alive.
Lao-tzu recommended that we let go of all those social conventions that interfere with our authenticity and that hamper our spontaneity and creativity.* Anna Katharina Schaffner
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.** James Baldwin
When you’ve been slowly but surely working on your humility and generosity and faithfulness, you can better trust the solution you have to be selfless and generous and wise – The kind of things problems don’t like at all.
If the One, the True, Being, the Good and the Beautiful were to vanish, the thought in the mind would have no pathway to the world.* John O’Donohue
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.** Alan Kay
We are always in need of beautiful ideas to lead us out of being trapped caught dead-ended pointless hopeless Pinched depressed repressed unimpressed overcome clueless directionless; Not all ideas are equally worthy and are able to align with: Being – deepest reality of all that is, The One – everything that exists is somehow bound together, The True – that whatever our reality, it is true and our experience real, The Good – participating in the soul of the world, The Beautiful – the truest and most real expression that lifts us, and, of course, The idea is moving through us.
what if we simply took whatever pain we couldn’t get rid of, and turned it into something else* Susan Cain
With … choice comes a remarkable sort of freedom. The freedom to be still, to become aware and to stop hiding from the living that’s yet to be done.** Seth Godin
Because our lives are stories, we can rewrite them, not in some fantastical way, but, “This has happened to me” full stop! can become “This happened to me, and now I choose …”; Writing it out is better than thinking about it, using pen and paper is better than some electrical device, Mornings are good times, Reminding us that this will need repeating; It will be costly, but time and effort always win.
You are the only you that has ever lived; your idiom is the only idiom of its. kind in all of existence and if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of the strings that somebody else pulls …* Brian McLaren
It most likely boils down to one thing, the one thing behind everything else that we imagine and do, the one thing we keep returning to in order to orientate our lives towards meaning and purpose; It’s useful to write it down every so often, and then make it happen in any which we we can.
No wonder some of our parents forgot to mention soul, as it is apt to distract from Serious Goals and Aspirations. It is as playful and illogical as a kitten, as watchful as God or a baby. It rubs its back lazily against trees. It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.* Anne Lamott
Your soul is much larger than you! You are just along for the ride. When you learn to live there, you will learn to live with everyone and everything else too.** Richard Rohr
Who taught you about soul?
I bet they were bigger than the people around them, more fun, more inquisitive, more effusive, more in wonderment, more loving, more forgiving, more more.
What most of us don’t realise is that when a story grabs us, that conflict, and its resolution, becomes ours.* Lisa Cron
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.** Loopy
Stories are how we live our lives, and we can even be drawn into stories that are not ours – attentively listening to A friend or watching a movie can find us anticipating and experiencing what is happening; We can find ourselves experiencing our own story as we tell it or write it down, but, As amazing as our bodies and minds are for transporting us into a story, all of the imagining and feeling are there for one thing only, And that is doing it.
And so I began to grapple with the truth that people-pleasers are prone to resist until it halfway kills them: that very often the best way to benefit others is to focus on doing your thing.* Oliver Burkeman
Why are people gonna be glad they saw your show? And whatever your answer is, rehearse it, grow it, feed into it, make it the main thing.** Gabe Anderson
How long have you been holding back on what you have to give?
Not wanting to upset others, or sound jarring, or be misunderstood or be hurt?
Ignoring or missing your cue to bring what only you can?
I do it so to compensate for something I think is missing in the common message. My public writing is a counterpoint to complement the popular point. Of course, I don’t think the stuff I say is the only way to go. I’m just the counter melody.^
There it is again: your cue to enter stage right (or left or from above or below) – or will you miss it, again?
How do you measure on this little test – How curious and questioning are you, how deep is your gladness, how much of you is present in this moment?
Curiosity is one way we know that our souls are functioning. So is deep gladness. So is presence.^^
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: OWN LIFE it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity.* George Orwell
If I chose to hide you away, it is for a reason. I have brought you to this place. Drink in the silence. Seek solitude.
Listen to the silence.
It will teach you. It will build strength Let others share it with you. It is little to be found elsewhere.
Silence will speak more to you in a day than the world of voices can teach you in a lifetime. Find silence. Find solitude – and having discovered her riches, bind her to your heart. Frances Roberts
The person happy to be alone is indeed a dangerous person for they shall know and be themself, Untethered, unattached, Not to do their own thing, but to bring their different and best for others.
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and power to serve others.^
Detached self-observation is essential for knowing our emotional selves. Such self-observation entails stepping back from our experience … Via trials, tribulations, and illuminating revelations, the hero’s journey chronicles the transformation of consciousness from a state of unawarenesss to a state of deep self-understanding.* Anna Katharina Schaffner
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and power to serve others.* Joseph Campbell
A journey traditionally references our travel in a day – something different for each of us; a journal is our capturing and reflecting upon that travel, revealing we are more than our activity, we are also an observer of ourself for the sake of others – These together provide our balance, our dynamic and static: We experience the journey differently when reflecting upon it, in turn enabling us to be more reflective in the throes of the journey.
THIN|SILENCE 
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