“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. “ — EE Cummings In Pressfield’s Legend of Bagger Vance, Bagger tells Junah: “Yep… Inside each and every one of us is one true…
Month: June 2016
Immediate Gratification
The very young woman who tries to teach me how to use social media to market my books explained something to me that I knew but didn’t comprehend. She said that those who I am trying to reach by using Facebook, Twitter, and the like, have very short attention spans. I shouldn’t take anything personal,…
Dream World
In your periodic self examination, ask yourself whether if in the end it was better to have fed and clothed someone who wasn’t worthy, than to have neglected someone who was naked and starving. We have all been taken advantage of, but wasn’t it better to have allowed someone to have taken undue advantage…
Practice and Training
The more you practice the three trainings of ethics, meditation, and wisdom, the more difficult it will become for you to act in a way that is contrary to an ethical, compassionate attitude. Ethics arise naturally out of contemplating the three trainings. — Buddhist Teaching People ask me all the time why I read the…
Common Enemies
There can be no happiness for any of us until happiness is won for all. — Gandhi When we see our leaders and our prospective leaders doing all they can to pit one group of humans against another group I am reminded of Gandhi’s words. Humans are not the enemy. Poverty, ignorance, violence, and indifference are the common…