Tag: passion

18 Jun

How to Stop Surviving and Start Living

You can choose to move forward towards your goals, or you can choose to have the same day over and over again until you die. Which do you choose?

22 Mar

Write Now. Write Often.

People have always told me I should be writing this down; that my life is more interesting from the outside. But where to begin? Chronology seems an oddly limited approach— too obvious, too flat for the story I’m about to tell you. What, then? Where can it begin?

02 Mar

A Life Lived Richly

The great and terrible secret of our culture–indeed, of the world–is that our financial and social rewards are directly proportional to the percentage of our lives that we “hand over”.

What am I going to do? I’m going to be alive; to dream and explore and experience as much as possible. Is that not good enough? Is that not a life lived richly?

28 Jul

Letting the Universe Live Through You

though we have learned to compartmentalize our senses, to change our focus, to filter reality through a lifetime of emotion and experience, we forget that the universe is still out there, barking at the gates, brash and inconquerable, refusing to be diminished.

04 Jul

Two Words to Overcome Sadness, Anger, Loneliness and Fear

One of the most common barriers to really “waking up” seems to be the propensity to avoid, isolate, and hold back when confronted with things that upset us. We seem pretty capable of holding onto cherished memories, but when it comes to something really ugly, we can’t run away fast enough. Why is that?
As I […]