September 2010
20 posts
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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
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Task #21 Desrcibe an event in your life when you...
I love the feel of things, the texture, the tempature, the sense of energy inherent in the thing I touch. Spend some time to day really focused on your sense of touch. Notice how things feel, like the tickle of the space created between the keyboard keys as your fingers glide across the keys.
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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books,...”
– Moliere
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Task #20 Dance
Dance (even if you think don’t know how to dance) move to the rythm in your head, feel the music (even if there is none), do it in your living room (or wherever you desire). Dance for at least 30 minutes.
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“The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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Task #19 Question the game of life
What set of rules are you playing the game of life by? Did you choose the rules you’re working to or did you just accept the ones given to you by other people like your parents, elders etc? How can you win a game if you don’t know what the rules are?
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“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of...”
– Buddha
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Task #18 Do something that scares you
One of the three guardians at the gate to any new adventure is fear. Fear can stop us cold. Fear isn’t a bad thing. It’s our bodies way of helping us prepare for a potential situation. Fear only becomes a problem when it’s an imagined fear that has no basis other than what we conjure up in our heads. But it feels so real that we fail to act because of it. Do something scary...
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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor....”
– Wayne Dyer
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Task #17 What legacy do you want to leave: how do...
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about life purpose lately. One of the questions still floating in my mind is do we need a life purpose beyond the obvious of staying alive and surviving? I’m on the fence with this one. I’m not convince we have to have a life purpose. Perhaps what drives us in search of a life purpose is our need to feel that our life has meaning.
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“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
– Steven Brust
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Task #16 If you could be more ambitious in only...
I have only just started playing around with the word ambition. It has a certain, power, a certain driving energy behind it that compells you to act. Having an ambition is like having a supercharged goal you actively want to pursue beyond all costs. Just having goals is not good enough. Goals tend linger without ambition. Add some ambition to your goals and watch them ignite.
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“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Task #15 Remember something or somebody you...
Did you get the prize? If so was it worth it? If not do you regret it?
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
– Charles Darwin
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Task #14 Tell your story in a poem
Joseph Campbell wrote that mythology is the study of mankind’s one great story and that our search is is to find our place in the drama. Mythology is the playground of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. If we view life as a poem and see ourselves participating in a poem, we will fill in accord with our universal self. Tell your story in the form of a poem, make it a...
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“Nothing would be done at all if man waited until he could do it so well that no...”
– Cardinal Newman
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Task #13 Just begin
What have you been putting off starting? Don’t wait for tomorrow to come, start it today. Begin with a small step, anything that get’s you going, moving toward doing the thing you’ve been telling yourself you will do one day. If you’re not careful, one day will never come.
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“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our...”
– Buddha
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Task #12 Let go of all of your thoughts and...
You can’t control your thoughts only your responses to them. If you try to suppress them you will attach significance to them and become distracted with the result that your thoughts will control you.