Monthly Archives: August 2014

The Comfort that Mutes Our Surroundings

Get just enough to be comfortable and you just may be blinded by what else there is or what else could be.

A life filled with trinkets will never fully energize a life designed to be powered with the treasures of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.

Wherever you’re headed, it’s rarely a sprint. Unfortunately, it’s a surprise to most when they get where they didn’t know they were going.

Where is the quiet drift taking you?

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O Me! O life!

O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
                                       Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.


#LTMP
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Capacity and Spillover

The late Jim Rohn once said, “Increase your capacity so that you may hold more of the next experience.” Few words have rattled me like these have.

This is why we read, why we listen, why we look, why we ponder, why we ask, why we observe, and why we touch, why we take notes, why we practice, and why we hone the instruments of our music. They connect the dots we’ve collected thus far to an endless world of ahas tomorrow.

Every moment holds a souvenir. We just need some space to store them.

The more we can hold in the more we can pour out.

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Anticipation

Think Christmas Eve night. Like when you were young.

Our lives start to create their own rhythmic and melodious whimsy when we start to design our upcoming days.

When is the last time you got up without the help of an alarm?

Dreaming of what you want to unwrap tomorrow can help here.

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