Smiles and kindness are contagious. Change begins with me.
02 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
Yesterday I attended this talk by Bramachari Jeff speaking about how we tend to focus on attaining world peace, yet war and crime have been around since the beginning of time. The answer is not to focus on world peace, but finding peace within ourselves. This is how we impact change. How can you bring peace into your life today?
25 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
Schopenhauer, in his splendid essay called “On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,” points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so, too, your whole life is composed by the will within you. And just as people whom you will have met apparently by mere chance became leading agents in the structuring of your life, so, too, will you have served unknowingly as an agent, giving meaning to the lives of others, The whole thing gears together like one big symphony, with everything unconsciously structuring everything else. And Schopenhauer concludes that it is as though our lives were the features of the one great dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream characters dream, too; so that everything links to everything else, moved by the one will to life which is the universal will in nature.
-Joseph Campbell on Schopenauer
25 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do, there are 1000 ways to kneel and kiss the earth-Rumi. The other day, I learned one of my mentors has passed away: Dr. Richard Kopp, a teacher who introduced Adlerian therapy to me and was one of the most genuine, creative, grounded psychologists I ever knew. He created metaphor therapy, and my metaphor for him was Kermit the frog. True to his authentic self. I recall him singing songs to us on guitar during our last day of class. When someone can truly share the gifts with the world in the most authentic way, this is spirituality. Spirituality at it’s essence is serving others freely in a passionate manner, and hopefully in a way that is following your bliss. May he rest in loving peace.
18 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
a gentle reminder as you wait in line at a grocery store, for a cup of coffee, or in traffic others are waiting too.
18 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
As I parked my car yesterday, I had to notice the license plate of the car in front of me. Sometimes always we have to do is be present to witness and experience love.
08 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
I was reminded yesterday that the simplistic definition of guru is that which brings light to the dark. Allow that guru in whatever form to manifest into your life, be it a mentor, role model, family member, or friend. A guru represents the highest aspects we hold within ourselves. Release into that authentic nature that resides within…
01 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
I stumbled upon this when walking today to work. what a nice surprising way to impact others.
26 May 2013 Leave a comment
Another glimpse into a Giant Leap’s Documentary: What About Me. Love’s emotions surpass language and culture, and collectively can be shared by music.
26 May 2013 Leave a comment
My social experiment yesterday of wearing wigs at a suburban NJ mall was a success. Not only did young girls compliment me on my hair, but one young gal Elisabetta couldn’t stop staring at me, smiling, and waving as if I was Katy Perry. I gave her a pink wig too to linger in her giggles. Her Italian parents were overjoyed, and her bald conservative dad even wore the wig. Eventually 70 year old women would approach me to compliment me, but stating they were too old for pink. In reality, we are never too old to play dress up. I was even lucky enough to be asked to be in a hair show by a sales associate, too bad I’m not an East Coaster or I would have done it. It only takes a smile to make a stranger’s day. The universe reciprocates immediately . See how you can pass on a moment to a stranger today.
25 May 2013 2 Comments
I saw this piece of a documentary on Oprah recently by Giant Leap. A worldwide collaborative music effort that that covers topics from grace, love, and happiness. Let your heart be massaged by this inspirational massage.
