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“What One Person Can Do” is first and foremost it is a process about two things: knowing that you are loved absolutely and unconditionally and that in every second, every situation, without exception, there is always a choice. No matter how it may seem, there is always a choice.
Following is the first installment of several on the topic of What Every Person Can Do… by Bill Cumming. Continue Reading →
I am privileged to live in the country, where there are often long periods of no discernible sound at all. When I lived in a city, I hardly noticed that there was always noise.
I wonder why tranquility is often confused with silence?
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle
So what is to “act right?” Over the years we (The Boothby Institute/Access) have defined “acting right” as being in such a space as to treat people with dignity, grace and loving-kindness. That would include all people, the ones who agree with us and especially the ones that our minds judge and evaluate as foolish or ignorant. Certainly it would include friends and loved-ones and it would have to include enemies, all those who would do us, themselves or others damage. Continue Reading →
