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The leaves are turning here in New England. You can feel a chill in the air that conjures up the winter ahead. I remember the excitement I used to feel as winter approached. Toboggan runs, sleds, frozen ponds and pick up hockey games filled the days.
I wonder if my enthusiasm has waned because I no longer do any of those things or because I forget sometimes to recognize the great import of breathing?
While sitting in the waiting room of the place where I get my car serviced, I began to identify the sounds I could hear. There were the usual sounds from the shop, air wrenches, lifts, engines. In addition there were at least three radios and one T.V.
Could it be that for some, noise (cacophony) is more comfortable to the hectic, human mind than quiet and tranquility?
Why, when so many great thinkers and/or spiritual leaders have spoken what is necessary for us to create a world at peace, have we failed to achieve it?
It is because we have chosen to be asleep, unconscious to the possibilities available to us every second of every day.
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they can be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” – Goethe, 1749-1832 Continue Reading →
