Noticing more the anatomy of superior judgments we can maintain about others and ourselves …. fast coming to clarity that we need to build a world of authentic compassion.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman, Philosopher and Theologian

It’s the noncourageous among us who becomes cynical and say nothing is possible, which gives them a convenient out, because if you’re a cynic, your heart can’t be broken …. But in the last analysis, people are sustained by believing in something. Mort Sahl

It never ceases to amaze me how when one door closes, another opens.

A first for me yesterday on the practice tee: a young guy next to me was watching me have a good day and when I was wrapping up, starting asking advice on his game. I didn’t hesistate, living from the principle that we honor our teachers best when we pass along what they’re given us. With a few minutes of zen coaching, he was flying his shots with a measure of more ease and distance.

I’ve had a shift in my whole feeling about being a teacher since my recent visit with my oldest zen teacher. There is some lesson here apropos to the whole idea of fostering mentoring in communities of work and life. The zen saying is, when the student is ready the teacher appears. Maybe the reverse is also true: when the teacher is ready, the student appears.

Melting winter ice
with love,
spring dances free.

To remember the water is to remember the source.

The true meaning of compassionate wisdom is that nothing makes sense until we can see it in ourselves.

If the polar cultures have dozens of words for the many distinctions of snow, it’s about time we allow our language to differentiate the dozens of kinds of friendship possible within and between genders and generations.

Interesting conversation last night, raising the question of language. We need a word for friendship that transcends gender and generation, that expresses a balance of freedom and affection.

We want to move between our aspired life and the endured life, and to find the balance between.

Nobel Prize Poet, Seamus Heaney, from his talk here last night