Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living.”; a saying he spoke at his trial after which he was sentenced to death, for alleged ‘impiety and corrupting of youth’, which most certainly would have been framed by people who imagined themselves to be at best his peers, or more likely, his betters, in the sentiment captured by these very same words: “Who do you think you are?”
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The theme for this month is Accepting our Natures. This month we explore how our biology, our genetics, and our neural chemistry affect our psychology.
Each of us can begin by facing the small discomforts we have been avoiding, and learn to sit with those, learn to show leadership to our selves, and learn stillness, to not be so easily triggered and moved about by the flutterings of emotion and the drama that is authored by the apparatus of our minds when our conscious awareness and sense of adult leadership is not in the room.
words of inspiration. Your dance and your song have their own sacred truth. Your light and your voice and your shadow that you cast; the footprint you leave on this earth and in the hearts of other people, is rare and unmatched and inimitable.
Some steps need to be taken alone. It is the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. Mandy Hale aloneness is a gift. On the Necessity of Aloneness we spend all our energy and so much of our attention and […]
We feel with our hearts, Not in our hearts. Feel. Feel everything. At times, even abandoned. The heart is a feeling instrument. When your heart is broken, it is your love that has forever changed. It is your faith that has left you, it is the ending of a belonging […]
The waves keep coming. Always. All we can say, is "Not Today!" Life throws wave after wave of ordeal at us. The difference between an ordeal and a trial is not the circumstance, it his how we choose to face it. They say only a fool turns their back on […]