“The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.” – Buddha
Category: Lifeways
Enduring, Hope, Tragedy, Overcoming Suffering, Crying
“No, we don’t always have to have the answer, but you have to be able to endure. I lost 30 friends during the storm. It’s almost a situation where you feel helpless, but I just couldn’t allow myself to break. I had to be strong. I’m going to still cry, though, because my tears don’t… Continue reading Enduring, Hope, Tragedy, Overcoming Suffering, Crying
Optimism, Faith, Purpose
“Men [and women] often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Heart Songs 200802
Effective Living > Music > Heart Songs Summary. This month’s Heart Songs selection is “Keep Holding On” by Avril Lavigne, from the soundtrack to the movie Eragon (available at our store). The song is also available from the iTunes music store. (Requires free download of iTunes software.) Lyrics. Here are the lyrics to the song. “Keep Holding On” You’re not… Continue reading Heart Songs 200802
Heart Songs 200801
Effective Living > Music > Heart Songs Summary. The Heart Songs selection for January 2008 is How You Live (Turn Up The Music) by Point of Grace from the album How You Live (available at our store). You can preview or purchase the song at the iTunes Music Store using the free iTunes music player. Lyrics. The lyrics to… Continue reading Heart Songs 200801
Transcendence, Awareness, Vision
“If the doors to perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake
Intellect, Independence
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” – Albert Einstein
Transcendence
“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that when – in a decade, a century or a millenium – we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so blind for so long?” – John Archibald Wheeler
Michael Balch – Remembered
Newspaper Clippings Student Comments Here are selected student comments about Michael: Comments by Greg Johnson (30 Jan 2008) I remember that it was a sunny day on Friday, 24 March 2006. That was the day I’d planned to go on a road trip to visit Postville, Iowa. The weekend visit was organized and sponsored by the Blesofsky Family —… Continue reading Michael Balch – Remembered
Diplomacy, Conflict
“Work on your diplomatic skills and avoid conflict at all costs.” – found inside fortune cookie (20071210mo)
Wisdom
“Take some time to really listen to your inner wisdom.” – found inside fortune cookie, MJ (20071210mo)
Thoughts, Thought Life
“We tend to take ownership of every thought that comes to mind. Stray thoughts are like stray cats passing by our home. We see them, but they aren’t ours until we take them in and feed them. The thoughts we take in and feed, those are the ones we take ownership of and responsibility for.”… Continue reading Thoughts, Thought Life