Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

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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The Power of Vulnerability ~ Brene Brown

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

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.

  • Courage to be imperfect
  • Compassion to be kind to self first and to others
  • Connection as result of authenticity

What makes one vulnerable is what makes one beautiful.

There is another way:

  • To let ourselves be seen
  • To love with a whole heart even though there is no guarantee
  • To practice gratitude and joy
  • To believe we are enough

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Love Expands Intelligence ~ Maturana

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

“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

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Knowing ~ Socrates

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

 

“The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing.”

~ Socrates

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Complexity Made Simple ~ Fred Kofman

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

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The Way Things Are ~ Talmud

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Steve

 

We don’t see things as they are.  We only see things as we are.

~ Talmud

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Enough ~ David Whyte

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Steve

 

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

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Sweet Darkness

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Steve

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 dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

~David Whyte

 

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What the World Needs

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Steve

 

“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

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Love the Solitude ~ Rilke

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Steve

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 feel from those around you should trouble you no more than your distance from the farthest stars.  Be glad that you cannot take anyone with you;be gentle with those who stay behind.  Be confident and calm before them, and don’t torment them with your doubts or distress them with your ambitions which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend.  Find in a true and simple way what you have in common with them, which does not need to change when you yourself change and change again.  When you see them, love life in a form that is not your own, and be kind to all the people who are afraid of their aloneness.

~Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
July 16, 1903

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