Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Emerson. As an author I envy authors such as Emerson, Hemingway, and Faulkner for lots of reasons, but one is that they didn’t have to have a social media presence. Authors these days are…
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I Have Come Into This World To See This
I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men’s hands even at their arc of rage, because we have finally realized there is just one flesh we can wound. — Hafiz. Hafiz is a 14th century Sufi poet who is considered to one of history’s lyrical geniuses. Emerson once said of…
Sorrow Looks Back, Faith Looks Up.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I can’t tell many times people have encouraged me to look back, crawl in a hole, and be sad and bitter. It seems the easy thing to do, but not the right thing. We all have worries. They come in many forms —…
There Is A Crack In Everything
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen, Anthem I am a son of an engineer, and educated as one too, but it doesn’t take an engineer to know that when one finds a crack in a…
Vision
Where there is no vision, a people perish. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Great leaders have vision, for a better world, a more peaceful world, and kinder and gentler world. I would add to Emerson’s quote that if the vision is about power and personal gain, not the betterment of others, than yes, “a people perish.” We…