Author: Anne

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ASSUMING OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IT TOO

Whatever “it” is.  That’s probably a mistake.  People don’t know what you know, don’t believe what you believe, don’t fear what you fear.  They’re not equally skilled, equally fast and equally equipped.  “If I were you” isn’t that helpful.

FROM: Seth Godin’s Blog

REFLECTION:

  • Do you spend time comparing yourself to others?
  • Do you offer advice to to others…. “if I were you…”?
  • How can you better believe in yourself… in your gifts and talents and skills? 
  • Can you let others experience their own journey?

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING

In that first
hardly noticed
moment
to which you wake,
coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,
there is a small
opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment
you begin
your plans.

What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.

What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.

To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.

Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?
In the open
and lovely
white page
on the waiting desk?

~ David Whyte ~

Poem by David Whyte from his book: THE HOUSE OF BELONGING

REFLECTION:

  • Do you ever feel like a troubled or uninvited  guest?
  • What urgency is calling to you?
  • What seed is waiting to grow and spread in you?
  • Waking up, what do you need to remember?

REACHING UP

The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.

Quote by Erik Naggum

Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Norwegian computer programmer recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs and Lisp.  Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet discussion groups. He died at age 44 from an ulcer. Source: Wikipedia

REFLECTION:

  • How do you feel about yourself?
  • Do you stretch yourself to be with people whom you perceive to be more than you?
  • Do you feel worthy in their company?