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LTMP Episode 8: Yes.

In this episode I discuss my personal journey with the yes’s and no’s of life.

You can click below or find it in iTunes.


Podcast Quotes:

  • “….at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.” Dag Hammarskjold
  • “Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

    An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally.

    Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does.

    Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

    Seth Godin

  • You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
  • We eventually know that Someone Else is working through us, in us, for us, and in spite of us. After enlightenment, our life is not our own…..We stop fretting about our smallness. Our yes deeply matters. The word for that yes and that connection is, quite simply, love.  Richard Rohr
  • “Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting.” Martha Beck
  • “Like fireworks, we pull apart the dark.” Sleeping At Last
  • The border between music and noise is always culturally defined
    —which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place;
    in short, there is rarely a consensus …
    By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. Jean-Jacques Nattiez
  • And, finally, I believe that all these things are true, and that [the] “unanswered question” has an answer. I’m no longer sure what the question is, but I do know the answer — and the answer is, “Yes.” Leonard Berstein
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The Key of See

Really, we just want a better view – a glimpse – and to hold all there is to hold and see all there is to see.

For the Love, please glow.

For the Love, gaze between the lines in the crossfire of empty and wordy.

For the Love, please shine where it’s dark.

For the Love, put your ear to the clouds.

For the Love, please illuminate the space you’ve been entrusted with.

For the Love, lead with your soul.

The Love is shining on the overlooked and hidden so that you may report back and enlighten us to their hidden beauty and whimsy.

See the circle? Love shines. You shine. We see.

When life is lived and lit up at the soul level that is precisely when all heads and hearts nearby turn to participate in music that is unfolding in the key of see.

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Bug Zappers and Soul Quenching

A few weeks ago I found great clarity in the idea that we must make room in our lives so that we may soak in more of the beauty that we’re here to behold.

This conversation was about consumption, culture supply and soul demand, our social and existential diets, and gaining awareness to just how much of our days are being robbed by the backlit screens on our desks, on our walls, and in our pockets.

I took a new novel to a sports bar tonight. It was weird. But it was the kind of weird that was reverent and right.

I heard last week about a friend who had entrepreneurs over for a special dinner. The goal was to connect these leaders and share with them the purpose of her company in their community. They ate sitting on the floor, discussed four specific words, and heard each other for the evening. I assume it was weird watching everyone squat with a plate and then in the next millisecond I bet it was reverent and right.

Stuff to fill the gaps is in full supply. We call these ‘feeds’. But what’s being supplied isn’t filling us as it feeds us.

It’s in the empty space where the true reflection on our days and lives is had. It’s in vacant moments – the sunsets – the quiet – the jog – the garden – the turning of the page – prayer – meditation – where the soul quenches its demand for transcendence. Make room for empty, don’t run from it. Give reverence some space and watch what unfolds.

The next time your anywhere with many people just look around. And then think of this bug zapper photo below. It’s a scary honest metaphor of what’s happening to us.

bug zapper

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