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Hearing


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?








Waking Up

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 →

Priorities


Kirk Ferentz makes a very good salary as coach of the Iowa Hawkeye Football Team. He has been offered five times as much to coach an NFL Team.




Could it be that contributing to the lives of young people year after year is more important than money?