Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.Howard Zinn ... Continue reading »
Inspiration
This Helps Me Get Perspective
Whenever I feel challenged and find myself in a situation where I'm only focussed inward I quickly become aware that I need to find perspective again. You know, to look at the outside world again and get some perspective. Perspective, to me, is that one ingredient that helps me stay in touch with the grander scheme of things. Of life, really. Perspective – of any kind – helps me become aware of what's really important to me again. It helps me focus on what I've got in front of me without feeling challenged If I really went for it, I could probably list a whole bunch of solutions of how I go ... Continue reading »
I’m focusing and becoming more aware again
Back in 2004, I enrolled in an NLP course in Belgium led by the wonderful Paul Liekens. Learning to understand how we translate whatever our senses pick up and how language patterns get interpreted by our mind was, and still is, one of the most important things I've ever learned. It's something I use every single day. However, this post is not about NLP, it's about something else Paul taught me: meditation. We would have these long weekends of 4 to 5 days where every single day before we started the day, we would commence the day by doing meditation. Even though it felt very unnatural ... Continue reading »
Awakened Man
I shared this on Facebook last night, but these kinds of messages deserve a larger crowd. I've been following Russell Brand for quite a few years now and love how he's inviting us to see the world for what it is ... not what the media wants us the believe it is.This is a compilation of interviews that, if you let it, invites you to think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKQXmvdr8o ... Continue reading »
Changing Education Paradigms
I couldn't agree more with Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert, about the state of our education paradigms and how they are in desperate need of changing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U ... Continue reading »
Why argue with this guy?
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the atoledo lot of mankind.Albert Einstein Originally I had the following quote here: Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian ... Continue reading »
Introspection with no means of diversion
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.Michael Sacasas ... Continue reading »
And therein do we err
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost ... Continue reading »