My heart dances

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It's so rare to add another quote to my list of favourites.  But when one hits you, it does.  And Rumi tends to be pretty high on the list.  It's an incredibly powerful time when you have presence of soul and a dancing heart.  It's been a while and it's good to be here.  New York, I love you.  

Patience, dear friends

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Sometimes, the most beautiful sentiments in just a few words.  I may just add this to my list of favourites.

 

Hearts and sleeves

“Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

- Benjamin Disraeli.

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In love, in laughter, in work and in friendship.  Say what you think, what you mean, and what is honest and authentic.

Delicious ambiguity. My best life lesson.

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.  Delicious Ambiguity."

 

- Gilda Radner

 

Of all the things I have learned over the last 4 years.  This is the truest.

Inspiration

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"Be clenched. Be curious."

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager." - Susan Sontag

Compassion

"I'm passionately involved in life..."

“I’m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle.”

Arthur Rubenstein 

It speaks for itself

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A healthy mind, is a healthy body

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”

- Astrid Alauda

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I've talked a little about meditation on this blog and its powers for changing the brain.  I also firmly believe that a a troubled mind has a great effect on physical health - don't let your inner critic overwhelm you, breathe deeply to minimise your stress and anxiety, and let compassion fill your heart and mind.  Your body will thank you.

Against the use of the word "very"

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays."

- Robin Williams playing John Keating in Dead Poets Society.

On the transition from law to consulting....

“It is not enough to have a good mind…the main thing is to use it well.”

- Rene Descartes

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Acceptance.

“We spend great energy in mental processes wishing things were different than they are. Wishing the traffic jam didn’t exist. Wishing the boss were a little nicer, wishing our children would take our advice, wishing, wishing, wishing. Acceptance is a key to a happier life. If we can just try to accept what is, and that wanting otherwise is often wasted energy, we will be happier. We would be better able to experience the moment more fully with this state of mind.”

- William Berry.

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Don't settle

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Sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

—Steve Jobs, Standford Commencement Speech 2005.

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Sometimes words are even more beautiful than a picture.

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Love yourself

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt



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