I am reading a very interesting book – “Rapt” by Winifred Gallagher. It is about attention and focus. It discusses the scientific evidence about attention and it’s relation to creativity, satisfaction, productivity and how what you attend to defines your view of the world. This last is particularly revealing. I am aware of the role [...]
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Thoughtful Tuesday
Posted in the Tao on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughtful Tuesday
Posted in simple living, sustainability, the Tao on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve” The Tao te Ching I just finished a fascinating book called “The last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. He was a pioneer in the field of virtual reality, and he was dying of pancreatic cancer. This book [...]
Thoughtful Tuesday
Posted in simple living, the Tao on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.” The Tao te Ching ‘You can’t know [the Tao} but you can be it, at ease in your own life.’ The Tao te Ching It is [...]
Meditative Monday
Posted in simple living, sustainability, the Tao on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go His heart is open as the sky.” Th Tao te Ching If your soul is like a jar, even a very big jar, and it is filled with worry or anxiety, so full that there is almost no [...]
Meditative Monday
Posted in simple living, sustainability, the Tao on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added, in the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.” The Tao te Ching My reaction to the post about the [...]
Sustainable Sunday
Posted in sustainability, the Tao on October 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the weekend in the company of passionate young women. They carry their babies in their bellies, at their breasts, on their chests and hips and backs in slings and carriers, and by the hand. They are filled with confidence, this newest vanguard of the feminist movement. They would not necessarily agree with my [...]
the Cruise Diaries:vol 4
Posted in simple living, sustainability, the Tao on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is our last full day at sea, and I am glad. We will be docked in Seattle when we awake tomorrow morning. I am really looking forward to getting off this boat and back to my real life. I know cruising is supposed to be a break from routine, a chance to experience luxury travel [...]
And we’re off!
Posted in sustainability, the compact, the Tao on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow we leave for our cruise and although I may blog while gone, don’t count on it. If I do, I will not have the capacity to add pictures, which will most likely be key to my posts. I got in the spirit of things as soon as I clocked out of work on Wednesday. [...]
Memorial Day Thoughts on Monday
Posted in sustainability, the Tao on June 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“A great nation is like a great man: when he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realixes it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.” The Tao [...]
Mindful Monday
Posted in the Tao, Uncategorized on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here is another wonderful poem form our friend at Panhala. Poetry is such a marvalous means of communication. By providing a window that most of us have failed to precieve, it allows us to glimpse new worlds, or our old one, with new eyes. WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING In that first hardly noticed moment [...]
