Most nights after putting my 7 year old to bed, we have lengthy discussions about life and reality. While he spends most of his day repeating silly nonsense from Sponge Bob, at night, when the lights go out, he changes. He’s a night person, his brain shifts into high gear in the darkness and silence… [...]
The Secret to Getting Things Done: Acceptance, Love, and Patience
05 Jun
Posted by Steve as Philosophy
Are you like me? When you decide to do a thing, you want to act immediately. You strive for constant progress toward your goal, then you run into obstacles… things that are out of your control… like other people who have other plans… but you need them to reach your goal. Then you try to [...]
My son is 6. Tonight he asked me A BIG question. It was bedtime. We had just finished saying prayers when he asked, “Why does life exist? Why is all this happening?” I asked him, “What else could be happening?” He said, “Nothing. There could be nothing.”
The simple concept I am about to share with you has taken me most of my adult life to realize and is one of the key ingredients in living a balanced fulfilling life. Dereck at I Will Not Die wrote a piece (Playgrounds in the Night) that will move you. When you read it, it [...]
Jeff Jarvis writes, “we are shifting, too, from a culture of scarcity to one of abundance.” While we live in a world of potential abundance, there are obstacles to realizing this abundance. It requires that we accept change and become willing to relinquish control of others. To realize your creative abundance, you must have the [...]
Over the Memorial Day weekend I spent time with an old friend. He doesn’t have job or a car and lives on less than $200.00 a week. He is looking for a job, but he already has what he needs and he knows it. As we sat outside, watching fireworks, he said to me “I [...]
Does our attempt to control reality create suffering? Alan Watts discussed the concept of Ziran (or Spontaneity) on the Alan Watts Podcast “Ziran means spontaneous, it happens as your heart beats, you don’t do anything about it, you don’t force your heart to beat, you don’t make it beat, it does it by itself. Now [...]
I find routines in life boring, so the other day I did something I’d never normally do. I took an hour or so alone and walked around every floor of the Mall of America and looked at each store and restaurant while observing the people who milled about during the noon hour. I’ve been there [...]
Today I thought I’d question the very core of morality. Bob Proctor’s presentation on the Science of Getting Rich is available on Google Video (Hat Tip to Lyman Reed). One of the things he said struck me as highly controversial. At one point he said, “There is no right and wrong, there is only your [...]
In this post I will describe self-destructive things I have seen in other people, not to build myself up, but because I know I have these blind spots and you probably do too, and these stories may help us better understand each other. We all seem to have difficulty seeing our own weaknesses and destructive [...]
