The secret of change

 is to focus all of your energy, 

not on fighting the old, 

but on building the new.

- Socrates -

 The Forever of Now

 

 

 

Every fact of science was once damned. 

Every invention was considered impossible. 

Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy.

 Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. 

The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. 

We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. 

As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’

- Robert Anton Wilson -

 

 

 People never give themselves enough credit

 for the things

 they’ve already overcome in their lives.

- Steven Handel -

 

 

 

 

Sometimes,

all that matters,

is that you're still trying.

 

 

 Rise Above

 

 

F A L L   7   T I M E S 

 

S T A N D   U P   8

 

 

 

He looked at his own Soul with a telescope.

 What seemed all irregular, 

he saw and showed to be beautiful constellations, 

 and he added to the consciousness

 hidden worlds within worlds.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebooks -

- Wales -

 

 

 A book is a door, you know. 

Always and forever. 

A book is a door

 into another place 

and another heart

 and another world.

- Catherynne M. Valente -

 What is on your horizon?

NOW is a good place to be

 

Whatever you challenge is now,

look at it. 

Face it, do not avoid it.

Bravery is called for.

Breathe deep, and leap in. 

As a wise elder once said : 

'the only way out... is through'

You got this.

You're not alone.

Ask for advice.

Keep an eye on the horizon,

and an eye on the steps ahead. 

- Waylon H. Lewis - 

 

 

 Skellig Islands, Ireland

 

 

The deeper you surrender 

the less you fear 

 

 

 

 

We all have forests on our minds.

Forests unexplored, unending.

Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

- Ursula K. Le Guin -

 

 

 Conditions are never perfect. 

“Someday” is a disease 

that will take your dreams to the grave with you. 

If it’s important to you, 

and you want to do it “eventually”,

 just do it - 

and correct your course along the way.

- Tim Ferriss -

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. 

But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

 Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. 

All is a miracle.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -