Browsing all posts in "growth".
There’s Always Room for Improvement
"There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can." – Henry Ford, American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the modern automotive assembly line (1863-1947) When we think about the world’s greatest inventors, the poets and actors and religious and other leaders that have [...]
Uncharted Territory
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." – George Eliot, the pseudonym of novelist, translator and religious writer Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era (1819-1880) In recovery, we learn a [...]
Find Joy to Heal the Pain
"Find a place inside where there’s joy and the joy will burn out the pain." – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best-known as the author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1904-1987) Some of us may be unfamiliar with Joseph Campbell, the man who wrote The Hero With a Thousand Faces. But [...]
On Reason and Imagination
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." – C. S. Lewis, novelist, best-known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia (1898-1963) There is a simple way to look at things, countered by a complex manner of doing so. In general, the simpler way is better, because it [...]
Follow Your Own Unique Path
"The six tips of a single snowflake…feel the same temperatures, and because the laws of growth are purely deterministic, they maintain a near-perfect symmetry. But the nature of turbulent air is such that any pair of snowflakes will experience very different paths. The final flake records the history of all the changing weather conditions it [...]
