Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health, even among the suffering.
Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled.
Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment,
Know the sweet joy of the way.
/ Buddha
Love will not create any contract. It is not business. Love knows no marriage because it is not business, it is not law. It won’t reduce the freedom of the other. If anything, it will increase and enhance the freedom of the other. Love cannot cut the wings of the other. It will give you more wings, more skies, vast spaces to fly and to be. / Osho
Do not maintain anger or hatred. As soon as anger and hatred arise, practice the meditation on compassion in order to deeply understand the persons who have caused anger and hatred. Learn to look at other beings with the eyes of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hahn
Joy creates a spaciousness in the mind that allows us to hold the suffering we experience inside us and around us without becoming overwhelmed, without collapsing into helplessness or despair … Profound understanding of suffering does not preclude awakening to joy. Indeed, it can inspire us all the more to celebrate joyfully the goodness of life. / James Baraz
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, and to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. / Henri Bergson
I think that�s a lot of what my poetry is about, just my reaction to the world in questioning and I think you need leisure time to do that. That�s what�s missing in business, we don�t give people mind space. I think also what keeps people from being creative is their fear of what�s going to flow out, so they don�t give themselves the space to do that.
Poet Sara Holbrook from my Cool Cleveland interview with her
There is a hole within each of us that can only be filled with Self-care. The more we try to engage people in filling it for us, the larger it gets. As the hole disappears, the whole appears.
Nice breakfast conversation this morning with a woman in the business leader community who observes how women second guess themselves instead of acting as peers to men. We all need to support acting with confidence in ourselves especially in venues where we’ve projected our power and wisdom away.
Yoga chanting to open the chakra energy centers has now become a welcome dimension to sitting meditation. I don’t know how people in business do it without a practice. It is for many of us the breath of life.
