January 06, 2014

There's a trick to the "graceful" exit.  It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over -- and let it go.  It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives.  It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. ~ Ellen Goodman

April 08, 2012

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind.  The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. ~ Rudolf Rocker

April 06, 2012

The trigger for much of our anger is frustrated expectation.  We sometimes invest so much of ourselves in a project that when it doesn't turn out as it should we become irate.  All "shoulds" point to an expectation, a prediction for the future.  We might have realized by now that the future is uncertain, unpredictable.  Relying too much on an expectation for the future, a "should," is asking for trouble. ~ Ajahn Brahm (from "Opening the Door of Your Heart")