empowerment & inner transformation…
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A reflection on how learning continues to light the path toward a safer and more resilient world. A year ago, I wrote about how education could become one of our greatest tools in facing the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Looking back now, that message feels even more urgent and personal. The storms, fires, and floods... Continue Reading →
“I don’t fit into any demographic, I never really have. But that’s true of lots of us, especially people my age and younger who’ve grown up with complicated identities, because life has gotten more complicated, and in which we don’t want to be defined by any single one of them, but are happy to present... Continue Reading →
The beauty of the evening forest, especially under a full moon, throws into sharp contrast the boundary between the sky and the mountain ridges, as if viewing a wood-block print. It is a world of white and black. It is also a world savored only by those who experience it. Captured in photos or video,... Continue Reading →
[...] Proud of the results but not of the action. Everyone but I must look back on my behavior. They can only see my acts coupled with their results. But I must act now without knowing the results. Thus I give my actions their own possible meaning to me. And true meaning always issues from:... Continue Reading →
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” - Henri Bergson *** “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”... Continue Reading →
“That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the... Continue Reading →
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own... Continue Reading →
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each... Continue Reading →
“Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice” - Unknown (November dedicated to MEN & FATHER quotes, since these are more valuable to me at this crossroad in life.)
empowerment & inner transformation... 