Author Archives: Steve
Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
TED talk describing first hand experience of having a stroke. Excellent description of the subjective experience of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
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FollowThe Power of Vulnerability ~ Brene Brown
TED talk on vulnerability as antidote to the shame of not being enough.
We are neurologically wired for connection. The one thing separating those who experience love and belonging and those who don’t is a belief in their worthiness of belonging. … Continue reading
Love Expands Intelligence ~ Maturana
“Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.”
~ Humberto Maturana
Knowing ~ Socrates
“The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing.”
~ Socrates
The Way Things Are ~ Talmud
We don’t see things as they are. We only see things as we are.
~ Talmud
Enough ~ David Whyte
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
~ David Whyte
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The … Continue reading
What the World Needs
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman
Love the Solitude ~ Rilke
Much that may one day be possible can already be prepared by the solitary individual, and built with his own hands which make fewer mistakes. Therefore love your solitude and bear the pain of it without self-pity. The distance you … Continue reading