Rhythm
Julie Barnes
There is a rhythm throughout the universe. The pulsation throbs within every heart, during each moment of ecstasy, in every birth contraction. The rhythm exists in the pull of the ocean tide, around the weight of each raindrop, woven into every cocoon. The sequence, the progression, is what we call time. Our time of influence affects the expansion of the universe. Heaven is eager to learn how we will add to the growth of eternal existence. God is ready to respond as you take part in creation. The rhythm never ends, it only strengthens and expands. This life force is you. You are the mystery. You are the journey. You are exquisite. You are here. Now, it's your time.
The Circle of Life
Elle
The Soul is the Source.
Light is the Messenger.
Love is the Message.
The Audience is the Soul.
Today
David Leonhardt
Live today, because it is all you have. Everything.
Tomorrow is still a dream. In most cases it is a dream come true, although rarely quite as we imagine.
Yesterday is a memory, one that can help us navigate both today and tomorrow.
Today is happening. Today is life in action. Today is what really counts. It is the only time you can control how you feel, how you act, how you think.
Feel it. Live it. Love it right now.
Can You Pass the Triple Filter Test?
Steve Goodier
When should you pass news on and when should you keep it to yourself?
A scholar in ancient Baghdad was said to be unusually wise. One day an acquaintance met the great scholar and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"
"Wait," the scholar replied. "Before you continue, let me ask a question. Is what you are about to tell me the truth?"
"I don't know," the man said.
"All right," said the scholar. "You don't know if it's true. Let me ask another question. Is what you are about to tell me good?"
"No, it isn't!" the man replied.
"Then allow me to ask a third question. Is what you are about to tell useful to me?" asked the scholar.
"No, it is not useful," said the man.
Then the scholar said, "If it may not be true, if it is not good and it is not useful, then why do you want to tell me at all?"
Does your news pass the triple filter test? Ask yourself these questions before you speak: Is what I am about to say the truth? Is it good? And is it useful? If you can answer yes to only two of these questions, be careful about what you pass along. But if what you are about to tell passes all three filters, then it should be told!
My friend Bob Burg has a different approach. "Play the 'Reverse Gossip' Game," he says. "See how many nice things you can say behind someone's back." Sounds like a game that everyone wins.
Alive and Present
Steve Goodier
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright once told of a childhood incident that may have seemed insignificant at the time, but had a profound influence on the rest of his life. It happened when he was nine years old. It was winter. Young Frank was walking across a snow-covered field with his uncle. As the two of them reached the far end of the field, his uncle stopped him. He pointed out his own tracks in the snow, straight and true as an arrow's flight, and then young Frank's tracks meandering all over the field.
"Notice how your tracks wander aimlessly from the fence to the cattle to the woods and back again," his uncle said. "And see how my tracks aim directly to my goal. There is an important lesson in that."
Years later the world-famous architect liked to tell how this experience had greatly contributed to his life's philosophy. "I determined right then," he'd say with a twinkle in his eye, "not to miss most things in life, as my uncle had."
He determined to be alive and present. To be fully aware and squeeze as much life out of each moment as possible.
We will miss most things in life if we live in the past. Let us learn from the past, but not live there.
We will miss most things in life if we live in the future. Let us plan for the future, but not live there.
We will miss little if we live in the present. And we'll have more fun along the way!
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