In ordinary life
we hardly realize
that we receive
a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only
with gratitude
that life becomes rich.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Monday, 28 June 2010
Eyes and Ears
The eye takes a person into the world.
The ear brings the world into a human being.
– Lorenz Oken
Friday, 25 June 2010
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Direction
You have to trust your inner knowing.
If you have a clear mind…
you won’t have to search for direction.
Direction will come to you.
– Phil Jackson
Monday, 21 June 2010
Friday, 18 June 2010
June 18, 2010 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
I read an interesting question the other day. The question was: “Whom would you take to war?” Some people in our lives are great friends, however they are not someone we’d want beside us in the trenches if we had to go to war.
Another question, along similar lines, is: “If you knew you had only 1 more hour to live, who would you want to spend that final hour with?”
The purpose of these two questions is not to get you feeling all morbid or doom and gloomish. Rather, it is to get you to really think about the people in your life and why they are important to you. As well, the questions highlight the people you should be spending most of your time with.
By all means, answer those two questions for yourself, and then let those people know that they are on your list. If you find out that you are on their list too, those are the people who should be the #1 priority in your world.
Beth
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
Easy
It is easy to be poor when we want nothing,
to be humble when we are despised by no one,
to be patient if we never suffer injury.
– John Trithemius
Friday, 11 June 2010
Passions
Passions are wired into the real world
more directly than our workday routines are.
If you love something,
you’ll bring so much of yourself to it
that it will create your future.
– Francis Ford Coppola
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
June 4, 2010 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
The ancient Celtic people had a world view that was quite different from other cultures in the world.
For instance, the Celts were the only society without some form of a creation myth. For them, the world always was, always is, and always will be.
They illustrated this “no beginning and no end” belief in many ways, the most tangible and familiar to us is the intricate Celtic knots that have no sign of a beginning or ending point.
This Celtic belief greatly impacted the way they viewed the world around them and their relationships with others.
Where we tend to see the world and our relationships in terms of polarity or duality (opposites), the Celts used trinities (such as past/present/future, mind/body/spirit, hot/lukewarm/cold, and more).
When you move away from a dual mindset and embrace a trinitarian view, you discover that the world is no longer divided along the lines of either/or, us/them, me/you, rather it is a relationship of and/and/and. Everything exists at once, in a type of harmony that we normally cannot envision or experience.
By viewing our worlds in trinitarian terms we discover unique ways of being that would never have occurred to us otherwise.
Beth
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Wednesday, 2 June 2010
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