Friday, January 3, 2014
Resilience
Practice resilience.
Resilience is a combination of acceptance, creativity and perseverance available to every person through reflection, values and choice.
Like a muscle, resilience can be developed. Exercises include finding reasons to be grateful; forgiving oneself and others; caring for one's health; serving others; and finding humor and beauty in the way things are.
Intelligence, wisdom, integrity, courage, charisma, commitment, kindness and even love are more potent when protected by resilience.
Practice resilience.
Resilience is a combination of acceptance, creativity and perseverance available to every person through reflection, values and choice.
Like a muscle, resilience can be developed. Exercises include finding reasons to be grateful; forgiving oneself and others; caring for one's health; serving others; and finding humor and beauty in the way things are.
Intelligence, wisdom, integrity, courage, charisma, commitment, kindness and even love are more potent when protected by resilience.
Practice resilience.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Being present
If you could meet and talk with anybody, who would it be?
That's a fun question.
But I would like just to be entirely present with whomever I meet - and, in doing so, to be with God in a new way.
(See Archive for June, 2013, and go to post dated December 4, 1994.)
That's a fun question.
But I would like just to be entirely present with whomever I meet - and, in doing so, to be with God in a new way.
(See Archive for June, 2013, and go to post dated December 4, 1994.)
Sunday, December 8, 2013
December 8, 2013
“Don't
worry about your reputation. Just do
your best and let your reputation take care of itself.”
That
is the best, and certainly the most memorable, professional advice I ever
received.
Like
much other wisdom, upon reflection, that advice may be applied to much more
than at first appears.
Today
it comes again to me this way:
“Don't worry about your relationship
with God. Just do your best and let your
relationship with God take care of itself.”
Sunday, December 1, 2013
December 1, 2013
“We’ll leave the light on for you.”
As I think today about how our little
Quaker Meeting can, corporately and individually, contribute to the vast and
complex world around us, what comes to mind is that simple pledge from a motel
ad.
As a Meeting, we can maintain this
community of faithful seekers and leave the light of welcome on for anyone who
is moved to join us, whether for minutes or years.
Individually, we can leave our inner
light on for everyone we meet: we can share freely such light as we are given –
the light of attention, love and acceptance – with the people we meet.
To
fulfill this pledge, we must take care of the light – we must provide
protection and fuel to our spiritual lives.
And we must leave the light on for each other.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Contribution
What higher non-physical need do we have than to experience contributing to - mattering to - at least one other person?
Most treasured moment?
Which is the more to be treasured: doing something for the first time or doing something for the last time?
Does it matter?
Aren't we always living this moment, breathing this breath, for the first time and for the last time?
Does it matter?
Aren't we always living this moment, breathing this breath, for the first time and for the last time?
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