It never hurts to be authentic and own your missteps no matter how embarrassing and uncomfortable. Owning your mistakes is freeing and energy giving.
There's many a hunter been killed, by a bear who's pelt he has already sold.
There's always someone better than you with a gun, and the more you use one, the sooner you come up against them.
“All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today“
~ Bruce Hornsby
The higher standard one holds oneself to, the deeper the disappointment when s/he feels that standard is not upheld or cheapened on some level by his or her mindless actions.
Yet it is also true that the more you allow your mind and spirit to just be still as it thinks and feels what it does the richer and deeper your understanding of yourself and others. Without discomfort there is no wisdom. Within lies the drive to probe deeper.
Human politics is about dominance by a few. The context of that dominance varies with personality,interest and influence among other things. One can either choose to play with it, be played by it or not play at all.
They say empty barrells make the most noise. Those with the least substance shout the loudest. Yet the loudest voice is sometimes a mask for the most felt sentiment.
Overthinking, ruminating on the same thoughts gets one stuck in analysis paralysis. It may be self soothing. But it's un nourishing.
When an activity zaps your energy and steals your joy it's time to reconsider what ,why and how .
The only opinion that counts is the one you give yourself. The best gift you can give yourself today is an acceptance of what is now. Regardless of what or how it makes you feel.
Having a desire to give and serve is just an admirable thought. But when the mind holds that thought without acting for whatever reason that admirable thought becomes cowardice.
One of the greatest challenges in life is to keep sharing even when no one appears to care.
And at times it's worth one's while being selective where and how one's gifts are shared. But it's mainly about ayni without expecting acknowledgement.
On its own, best friends forever is not always sustainable. It takes openness to forever serve more than one role to anyone. Life is about seasons. Humanity is about reasons. Constantly adapting to another's and one's own changes and adjusting roles is what it takes to keep any bond together.
In any social medium just as in the electronic media it is only the opinion of the loudest and most dominant that is acknowledged and validated. That's the world as it has always existed. As it currently exists. And when those loud voices are muted by another set or category of loudness then they become the sullen minority. And the cycle repeats.
One cannot regulate how another chooses to express one's opinion. The option to review and addend should always be offered.
You will meet many critics each day, you don't have to be one of them.
Criticism is a natural reflex of the human cognitive complex. As with every other facet of being human, you evolve with or in spite of it. Whatever it is.
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles
Being on a ship is like being in prison, but with the added risk of drowning.
The best way to avoid being sea-sick is to hold onto a tree.
Whether you believe you can or can not do something, you're right either way. Forgot who said this but I love this quote.
@SunnyD It was Henry Ford.
Good choice. ( That was a comment on your quote, not a new one )
loving these quotes guys
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
“We are what we watch, we are who we love, we are what we listen to; we become what we spend time with.” ― Adam Nergal Darski, Confessions Of A Heretic: The Sacred And The Profane: Behemoth And Beyond
“Every great idea starts out as blasphemy.’ If there is resistance, it means that the direction is right.” ― Adam Nergal Darski, Confessions Of A Heretic: The Sacred And The Profane: Behemoth And Beyond
80 years old political cartoon, relevant today.
The seemingly impossible can often be achieved with a shift in mindset and approach.
The unfortunate truth is that conflict is far more lucrative and intriguing than peace, however one chooses to define either.