Posts for Words

interesting thoughts of others

You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen . To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. – Abraham Maslow . We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.  – Aristotle . The real voyage of discovery […]

Thoughts from Nietzsche

1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. 2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. 3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think […]

Gandhi’s 7 Blunders

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination. The seven blunders are: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without […]

The Gospel of Creation

So I have not written in this particular blog in awhile. It is hard to always write on a screen as an environmentalist. So many thoughts are inspired by nature, so it is not with much frequency that anything of importance is recorded while in a room in front of this electronic box. My hand-written […]

Independence

Remember the children? In Somalia, Rwanda, Darfur, kitchen floors of broken homes and shelters… It is as though love is sacrificed, crucified through eternities of anger that defy structure, organization, a hierarchy of you, me, my brother, friend. Who speaks for the fringe in monotony’s madness? Simple, it is  inherent music & poetics… Qualities of […]