Wow, I just read this statement from Ernest Hemingway; “It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty years to learn to keep quiet.” How true is that? So true. Many of us speak all the time, it is a time to demonstrate one’s ego. As soon as […]
BEAR is an animal, which we all know. There are other qualities or characteristics to the word BEAR. A BEAR can be an irritable person, a grouch. To be A BEAR for punishment is to be RUGGED or to be determined. To BEAR also is to carry or to […]
By keeping THE MIND ALWAYS OPEN and being impartial, one will not have fixed opinions or belief systems that would distort the flow of pure information coming from the outside world. The understanding of the outside world will grow and one’s position in it will be enhanced. One should […]
Taking this perspective on life could be a benefit to one’s continuation. Waking up every morning is like a REBIRTH, for that day. It is a RENEWAL, REVIVAL, A RECOVERY from the day before. If handled properly, a REBIRTH. If a mistake is made, the next day you are […]
There are those that search for and collect paintings of the past or search for items of the past. Yes there are true values to be found in these items. Yes there is a true value of antiques. The older they get the more the value climbs. An antique […]
VULNERABLE is considered to be UNPROTECTED, EXPOSED and DEFENSELESS. But not allowing yourself to be in that situation of VULNERABILITY, you will avoid taking risks. If you do not take a risk you avoid failure. When you avoid failure you also lose the opportunity to learn something. THE POWER […]
Many years ago, when my son was 6 or 7 years old we went every Saturday to a restaurant on the upper east side for lunch. Then in the evening I would go back myself or with friends for dinner. After doing that consistently for about a year the […]
We are so engaged in doing things to achieve purpose of outer value that we FORGET that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. We have to learn to get back into harmony with the wisdom of nature and […]
Lao-Tzu said; “A man is born gentle and weak. In his elder years he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. In their aged time they are withered and dry. The gentle and yielding are the followers of life. A tree that is unbending […]
Having THOUGHTS that cover the area of; I am not good enough, I am not worth it, I can’t achieve that, what can one do when these NEGATIVE THOUGHTS enter the mind. Bruce Lee had a comment that could address such NEGATIVE worries; “The mind is like a fertile […]
A Perfume Whisperer 