All One Thing

Will.i.am from the band The Black-Eyed Peas secretly put out a call for 2500 fans and dancers to appear in a group dance on the Oparah show.  The beautiful thing is that those fans and dancers went out and taught the dance sequence to over 20,000 other people.  ALL of this without Oprah knowing it.  [...]

Trying something new is like exercising a muscle. It takes repetition. Practice. Commitment. Focus. Then this new way of being or moving will begin to incorporate into your life in many ways. You’ll use that muscle more and more. This page is dedicated to working our muscles, trying [...]

I love to “putter.” That’s my word for roaming around my house picking up books, reading a few chapters, looking up the maps and references online, doing a little history or science research, picking up the next book, reading a chapter, doing a journal entry about the connections I see, and staying up until [...]

“Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. Never give up , never lose hope. Allah says, ‘The broken ones are my beloved.’ Crush your heart. Be broken.”
- Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir, aka Nobody, Son of Nobody

The things that you see, feel, read, experience will change your life. In the Fourth Way Gurdjieff tradition this is called giving yourself carefully chosen IMPRESSIONS.
I’m reading Three Cups of Tea about efforts of Greg Mortensen and his friends to build schools in the Karakoram mountains. Very motivating that you CAN do whatever [...]

When I was four my little brother had the chicken pox.  I remember him lying on the couch screaming and screaming, with little pink dots all over him.  I’m sure my parents were around somewhere, but as he lie there with me kneeling next to him, I thought, “He’s alone and he’s going to die.”  [...]