December 2010
7 posts
i feel like everyone's getting tumblr's now just...
“I thought I’d been running, and that exhaustion had pursued me...”
– ‘Candy’ - Luke Davies
I dedicate this quote to all my tired peeps who need some R and R this break :)
Song of Myself
‘… have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
And to glance with an eye or show a bean...
November 2010
25 posts
The noble path of uni-tasking...
My Dad used to say this to me a lot when I was a kid. It was of his constant refrains “Hang on a minute, let’s just do one thing at time”. In my enthusiasm for whatever it was at the time, I’d want to rush in and do it all at once. (I’d also often be told “simmer down” but that’s another story)
I still find it challenging to do one thing at a time. Over the years I’ve made it a meditation...
Becoming your real self to help the world →
‘…the world is in so much trouble that it needs every sort of talent and passion in order to help it.
In other words, if you care about world problems, you don’t have to fit yourself into a mold that is someone else’s idea of how to do good. You can figure out how to direct your own particular talents and passions in service of the problems that concern you...