“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we…
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Looking Back to Move Forward
Sometimes it takes looking back to move forward. What has happened to it all?Crazy, some’d sayWhere is the life that I recognize?Gone away But I won’t cry for yesterdayThere’s an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldI will learn to survive” ~ Excerpt from “Ordinary World”…
The Stockdale Paradox: How to Prevail in Times of Crisis
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose —with the disciplineto confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,whatever they might be.” ~ James Stockdale It was late fall in 2009, and I had gone out to the Buck Creek field for a walk….
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Everything is Energy: How to Align with the Frequency of Creativity
“Everything is energy. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” ~ Albert Einstein Last week, I happened to stumble upon a replay of a Facebook Live that was hosted by the founder &…
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The Antidote to Compare and Despair
“Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton Lynda Barry was on a mission. She stood in front of us at Saturday’s Box Sessions workshop held at the 1440 Multiversity campus. She said she was going to “work us like mules at the Erie Canal.” In rapid-fire fashion, she had…
Letting Go of Control to Become More Creative
“How wild it was, to let it be.”― Cheryl Strayed,Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail The invasion of the body snatchers began during my seventh month of pregnancy. I stood behind my husband as he sat in a chair in the living room. To his right was a small table upon…
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