Something Larger Than Yourself

Just before the inau­gu­ra­tion, Parade Mag­a­zine pub­lished a let­ter Barack Oba­ma wrote to his daugh­ters, Malia and Sasha. It is a touch­ing let­ter, and repeats the off-heard theme that I have quot­ed above: we don’t achieve our poten­tials, can’t achieve them, with­out find­ing some­thing larg­er than our own inter­ests.  The pres­i­den­t’s let­ter to his daugh­ters… Con­tin­ue read­ing Some­thing Larg­er Than Yourself

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A Beautiful Example

First, I want to offer many thanks to Alek­sander Velkos­ki for stop­ping by my site and leav­ing a com­ment on my last post. In return, I vis­it­ed his own fine lead­­er­­ship-ori­en­t­ed site. I found excel­lent mate­r­i­al and I was par­tic­u­lar­ly impressed by a video of Peter Schiff that I, like Alek­sander, have decid­ed to embed.… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Beau­ti­ful Example

On Defensiveness: More Straw for an Even Bigger Fire

In my last post I men­tioned the phrase “straw for the fire” as hav­ing emerged dur­ing a med­i­ta­tion. Since then I have become increas­ing­ly aware of some­thing with­in that con­tin­ues to grow around these lines. Most­ly this: that every con­cept of self, every cher­ished belief, and cer­tain­ly all absolutes are so much straw, as well.… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Defen­sive­ness: More Straw for an Even Big­ger Fire