Sage advice for do-gooders everywhere…
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
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William Butler Yeats wrote in The Second Coming: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while [...] From his Commencement Address at Stanford University in 2005: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the [...] A wise friend of mine, Billy Pacholoski, taught me something useful recently. He pointed out: We get a lot of our information from outside ourselves these days. We need to listen to what is inside more. Amen. I have a theory that informs my life. I believe that what is most interesting and valuable in life has layers. While I enjoy seeing what is beautiful on the surface, looking through the obvious to what lies beyond is a core value. This first occurred to me in my therapists office, though it had [...] |
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