My name is Why It’s all I’ve got This is my life In one shot* Lemn Sissay
All you are is what you have and what you give.** “Shevek”
Awesome doesn’t have to be big, As well as causing us to experience our ego as smaller and our soul as larger, Awe is awe when it leads us to curiosity and wonder and questioning.
I saw there was no self; that selfishness was all folly, and the result of circumstance; that it was only because I thought self real that I suffered; that I had only to live in the idea of the all; and all was mine.* Margaret Fuller
Being put in our place by something bigger than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.** Alain de Botton
The ego serves a purpose, and then it is a hindrance; We move from dependence to independence, but are then prevented from moving to interdependence where “all is mine”: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.^
It isn’t a once and for all experience – We humans know how to lose a good thing – but the power to find it again each day is within each of us.
Psychologists recommend keeping two things in mind as we try [affect labelling] out. The first is to be as prolific as possible … . The second is to be as granular: that is, to choose words that are precise and specific as possible when describing what we feel.* Annie Murphy Paul
I’ve come to believe in the power of writing down your vision. I don’t believe writing down a vision creates any sort of magic in the universe, but I do believe it sets a general compass for your subconscious.** Donald Miller
Journaling is a great way for keeping on course, For being affective rather than waiting to be effected, Making progress even in still waters, Capturing the Musts that come from within before playfully practising them: At some point the big reasons run out and then all you’re left with are your quiet decisions. … Big reasons run out. The power of your decisions does not.^
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left an adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted.* Virginia Wolff
One of the most important parts of growing up is to see ourselves as we really are instead of assuming we are what our parents and teachers told us we were. Corita Kent
When people share with me the things they love to imagine and do, I have experienced at times a sense of awe; It reminds me to mention how you may find the awesome inside of you as well as outside.
We will likely wonder where that has come from, but when the realisation causes us to grow in the goodness of our being and ways, We can be sure that we have encountered the awesome: Awe is the feeling we have when we encounter the monumental or immeasurable. We experience a sudden shrinking of the self, yet a rapid expansion of the soul.^
As Richard Rohr reminded us a few days ago, The soul is bigger than us, Being our connection to every one and every thing, as David Whyte alerts us: If we had very little in the way of attention for the world, then we actually had little in the way of real existence.^^
Let us not be surprised, then, that in finding the awesome within, we are propelled outwards into an astonishing day: When we shift our mindset and open ourselves to the awe of daily life, we may find opportunities to be wowed are all around us.*^
*Dacher Keltner’s Awe; **Corita Kent and Jan Steward’s Learning By Heart; ^Nick Caves’s The Red Hand Files #157; ^^David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea; *^Jonah Paquette’s The Wise Brain Bulletin: Mind Bending Awe.
How does awe transform us? By quieting the nagging, self-critical, overbearing, status-conscious voice of our self, or ego, and empowering us to collaborate, to open our minds to wonders, and to see the deep patterns of life.* Dacher Keltner
We have it within our power to induce in ourselves a state that is ideal for learning, creating, and engaging in other kinds of complex cognition: by exercising briskly just before we do so.** Annie Murphy Paul
How important awe is to finding our place within life, and life within us; Humans have such power, Yet without awe – In the universe, in nature, in people, in ideas, in accomplishments (awe is all around us) – We can misuse and abuse this horribly.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.* Austin Kleon
If you follow the way of integrity far enough, you life may go beyond our culture’s definition of “normal” – not because you’re departing from reality, but because you’re connecting to it.** Martha Beck
Obscurity can be a wonderful place for exploring and playing, To come up with something new that would not be possible in the limelight.
When we know the kind of place obscurity is, We can visit, or replicate it, when we want to or need to.
A role is not a character. A role simply assumes a generic position in a story’s social order (Mother, Boss, Artist, Loner) and then carries out that role’s tasks … .* Robert McKee
Whether a story is to be marked for grownups or children, the writer writes for himself, out of his own need, otherwise the story will lack reality.** Madeleine L’Engle
The role comes scripted from beyond us, The character comes endlessly unfolding from within.
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
I am not going to attempt a definition of the soul, I only know that people of all kinds of beliefs use the word to describe the biggest iteration of a human they can imagine, Which I guess is the point: Greater expressions made possible through connection to the other.
THIN|SILENCE 
You must be logged in to post a comment.