This quote can be traced back to Hippocrates, and is one of my favorites. After 61 years of living it, I have come to understand all of my life as art, my unique expression and perspective, colored by love and loss and light and dark. Now when I look around at life, I marvel at …
Many of us we brought up to value ambition, goals and the importance of working toward something. This forward and outward orientation is indeed a fine thing, it is an important part of our capacity to create, achieve and grow. But it isn’t the whole equation. There is another part of our nature that simply is. It is …
“Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our abilities do not exist. We are collaborators in Creation”. ~ Pierre de Chardin What do you think of when you think of ‘Mastery’ – a virtuoso musician or an Olympic athlete? Of course, the refinement of skill can define the word, but I am …
Talking with a dear friend and colleague the other day, our conversation turned to empowerment. Just what was this thing? We can point to a creative and focused person in our midst, someone who has it all going on, and might say ‘Oh, there is an empowered person’. Okay, assertive, having access to resources, yes, …