Are you a Tree ?
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
~Jim Rohn
Alvin Toffler on Change & Growth
In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as [...]
Internet challenges
“The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. …The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.”
– George Gilder
Those of us who use the Internet are challenged with spam, viruses and worms. What meaning can we find in these culprits?
It helps to remember that the cause [...]
Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Maya Angelou
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Mairead Maguire on Change..
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of [...]
You are at the right place….
“Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.”
- Julia Cameron
James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.