What knowing exists in your bones? Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne The open classroom of the Asheville Transcendental Meditation building was set up with a few…
Let Your Imagination Howl
What does it mean to let your imagination howl? “…A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I drove past the Whiteside Mountain overlook yesterday as the sun was setting. Throngs of tourists gathered along the guardrail with phones and cameras at…
Are We Having Fun?
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” ~ Dale Carnegie Steve Jobs famously said, “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer…
The Anxiety of What I Should Be Doing
The anxiety of ‘what I should be doing’ gets us all. “Since many are confronted with an eerie void, lacking essential qualities in their daily repertoire and suffering from missing out on a second or third dimension in their lives, they feel disjointed and disgruntled, unconsciously struggling to find out a kind of strategy to…
Creators without Borders or Boxes
Creators without borders are the best creators. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche I had had a…
Boomerang Messages & Crazy-Ass Notions
What crazy-ass notions are burning deep inside you? “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ~ Joseph Campbell Sometime during my son’s junior year in high school, I came across a book on the top innovative colleges in America (with apologies, I’ve forgotten the title of the book). I was drawn…
