We have a choice whether we wish to continue with evolution on this planet or not. I vote “yes.”* Keith Haring
People evolve before organisations do.**
The possibility of a human being evolving across their lifetime is a staggering notion, and we have far more agency towards this than we imagine; I’m not thinking of what we might simply do that looks different, but how we lock the important changes into our DNA, And I cannot think of better places to begin than humility – which is to know and respect our Self and others more deeply, then gratitude – to notice and be grateful for all that fills and touches our lives, and faithfulness – to daily find new ways of expressing who we are and what we have.
*Keith Haring’s Keith Haring Journals; **Source lost but it could be gapingvoid’s blog or Seth Godin.
Often, without knowing it, we are waiting for a new idea to come along and cut us free from our entanglement.* John O’Donohue
Prime is the time we establish ourselves in the world on individual, equal terms. Once we have contact again with an essence and a sense of accomplishment, then we can offer ourselves to others for conversation in a new way.** David Whyte
We are not plants or some higher form of animal intelligence, Blame consciousness but life is more complex for us; We have to find different ways of dealing with reality, and have often found this in ideas and imagination, so, When we feel trapped dead-ended pointless hopeless restricted dark-minded repressed oppressed clueless directionless, Here are five of the best areas for exploration – these from medieval times: Being as the deepest reality of all things, The Oneness of all things in unity despite all difference, The True found in reality and experience, The Good as the soul of the world, and the Beautiful as human inspiration and passion.*
In the morning, in my prime time, the things I’m reading often offer up many of these in thoughts and experiences and possibilities, Disentangling me from most things that hold me fast.
Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering … It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.* Susan Cain
That’s the process of evolution. An evaluation criteria for determining whether to convert input to output, I think the initial values that the brain is equipped with are pain and discomfort.** Ryunosuke Koike
We wish there were no pain, But it’s always been an important element when it came to life or death, or at least between stick or twist, Being awakened to the power of our imagination to face the pressure of reality, somehow alchemising transcendence; It’s likely that we’re here doing something we’re pretty good at because of pain rather than comfort.
The idea is simple. You have a purpose so big and inspiring it transforms your entire life. Ben Hardy
An overnight success almost never is. Might as well plan for the journey.** Seth Godin
Of course, you may have planned a trip rather than a journey, Or a jaunt, an outing, an excursion, or even a junket; However, the longer the travel, The greater the variety of sceneries, topographies, terrains and perspectives, and the greater the possibility of change, and even transformation, a re-connecting with the wild without and the wild within: meaning has to be located outside ourselves – discovered in the world rather than our own psyches.^
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.* Joseph Campbell
Fear is self-focused. Day-to-day our fear is about us … And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”** Seth Godin
The hero’s journey begins in humility, which is to know oneself and to recognise others – The truth of you and the truth of me; Erich Fromm would perhaps say that we are thus brought into the presence and promulgation of beauty: Here lies the connection between beauty and truth. Beauty is not the opposite of the “ugly,” but of the “false”; it is the sensory statement of the suchness of a thing or a person.^
Suchness is about being oneself, which also turns out to be one of the most difficult things we’ll ever do – So many forces pulling us from without and within: The great law of life is: be yourself. Though the axiom sounds simple, it is often the most difficult task. To be yourself, you have to learn how to become who you were dreamed to be. Each person has a unique destiny.^^
It is difficult because to be ourselves we must not only recognise but empathise with others, so that our deepest joys can meet their deepest need, And vice versa – The hero, more than anyone, knows that they are not super-human.
To have a shot at this, there is great benefit in beginning the day alone; I stretch David Whyte’s words to cover more than our paid work, to describe our greater contribution, something he names Prime: Prime is the time we establish ourselves in the world on Individual, equal terms. Once we have contact again with an essence and a sense of accomplishment, then we can offer ourselves to others for conversation in a new way.*^
I love that word treasure. What if we saw ourselves that way? As worthy of treasuring?* Sam Radford
This is your mistake, which means there’s something valuable in it, something that can teach you about yourself.** William Seighart
Anne Lamott lists three conditions toxic to the soul: Perfectionism, Contempt for self, Wanting to be right and better than^ – A fourth, and a result of this trio, is to perhaps look away from the messes and mistakes we make, Fearful of what we may find: With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse^^.
Lamott is always disarming in her personal honesty, Finding a way to tread the healing side of the self-compassion/self-destructive line, Helping us to learn how to follow because it is likely that we, too, are ailed by at least one of these injurious conditions, finding at least three soul-skills we are capable of: Curiosity is one way that we know our souls are functioning. So is deep goodness. So is presence.^
Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be, what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?** David Whyte
The motivation to play in an infinite game is completely different – the goal is not to win, but to keep playing. It is to advance something bigger than ourselves or our organisations.* James Carse
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.** Viktor Frankl
You will keep on finding ways to continue the game because you know that if you or someone else brings the game to an end, you will never know what lies beyond the particular winning line: No two human beings ever experience two sensations, experiences, feelings, or thoughts identically. Everything changes. Everything is always different.^
The game is never over, and you know that you have the capacity to to move beyond the winner/loser definitions too hastily arrived at, to adapt, shift, morph …
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