by Deb | Mar 29, 2012 | Learning, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Two Kinds of Intelligence There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher say, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such...
by Deb | Mar 13, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Metaphors and Stories, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Fueled Fueled by a million man-made wings of fire the rocket tore a tunnel through the sky and everybody cheered. Fueled only by a thought from God the seedling urged its way through thickness of black and as it pierced the heavy ceiling of the soil and launched...
by Deb | Mar 2, 2012 | Metaphors and Stories, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Trough There is a trough in waves, a low spot where horizon disappears and only sky and water are our company. And there we lose our way unless we rest, knowing the wave will bring us to its crest again. There we may drown if we let fear hold us within its grip and...
by Deb | Jan 31, 2012 | Creativity, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you? Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides with perfect courtesy, to let you in! Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass! Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over...
by Deb | Jan 16, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong. anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you -David Whyte (excerpted from Sweet Darkness) The worst limitations we live...
by Deb | Jan 9, 2012 | Connections, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind’s worst disease. -Sent-ts’an, c. 700 C.E. One of the greatest challenges I have with my own teenage daughter is trying to seek the...