Showing posts with label Notes to Self. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notes to Self. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Don't be afraid

Don't be afraid to learn a lot or understand more than you think you should, for fear of becoming alone, for even as you attain mastery or supreme knowledge, you will always be presented with a new paradox, new questions to ponder, new problems to solve, and will encounter individuals who have been there before.

Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to have really good ideas that you "know" in your gut will work. Just find a champion. If you can't find a champion, use the world.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Most Important Lesson

A mentor once told me, and I think this is the most important lesson:

"Doing the right thing is more important than doing things right."

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Little things and Big things

It's never the big things, always the little things -- that alter our perspective on reality.

To provide a little context not particularly related to this post: Lucille left today. She was the building custodian (janitor) at my workplace, and for what it's worth was the one who always greeted me and asked me how I was doing today. She always noticed when I was a little down, and pointed it out to me. Lately, I'd been noticing that she was a little subdued, and today I found out she's leaving. Friday will be her last. Good luck to you Lucille - we'll miss you!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Women and Karma

This is possibly my single biggest overreaction and my largest attempt at blowing things out of proportion....but will remain true to my feelings at the time of this writing

God in his infinite wisdom or arguably his single most flawed judgement gave two kinds of souls birth into womanhood: The first kind, is the one that he wanted to punish for their burden of past sins and insensitivities - he made these souls either into extraordinarily sensitive women who reached out and acted in the interest of their fellow men, but who were doomed to obscurity and forever went unappreciated for their efforts, or, he made them into the totally insensitive attention-seeking and self-absorbed kind, who are doomed to eternal bondage and have no hope of salvation in a hundred births. In either case, there is no escape for these souls...

The second kind of soul that God gave birth into womanhood, is the kind that is meant to do great things and change an entire generation for good. Often times this woman is a school teacher, an accountant, a nurse, a single mom, a spiritual leader or a mother to one, an activist, a social worker, a world leader, or just even a plain mother in a farm somewhere. Often she isn't the protagonist in the story but the actor behind the scenes, the silent miracle worker, who is the reason the script even exists. Perhaps, she is God in the body of a woman - an image of perfection. Perhaps, God "is" a woman. She, is this Earth. She is our Life. She is the One. This is the kind of woman who, the first kind of woman that has no hope for salvation, should aspire to be.