A Post-Election Assessment
“The Superior Man doesn’t waste energy fighting Evil. He makes energetic progress in the good.” – the I-Ching.
The recent election has a lot of people rattled – and perhaps it should – but I’d like to suggest that giving too much attention and fixating on the new President-elect robs us of the energy and focus we need to make the “energetic progress in the good” needed… Read More »
“A Vision without a Task is just a pipe dream… A Task without a Vision is just drudgery… But a Vision with a Task can move the world.” — Black Elk
Having a rich, passionate life while being effective in the world requires integrating Heaven and Earth, vision and task. To do this we must join the grand and eternal with the small and immediate; wed what’s transcendent and sacred with what’s mundane and practical. Read more »
Row, row, row your boat,gently down the stream….
It’s no accident this nursery rhyme – simple yet profound – evokes water. For millennia explorers have ever-sought their magical elixirs and Fountains of Youth; spas and resorts have grown up around thermal pools. As a metaphor, The River represents the Source, that primal force, energy, or condition that creates and nourishes life. Moses was cast adrift on the Nile; Christ baptized… Read More »
