Meditate and learn

 "Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over."

Brandi Carlile
 

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius

Thoughts: 

I think the beauty of meditating is that it shuts our thinking brain off a bit and opens us to hearing different things which may lead to learning something that was not in our consciousness previously.

And how nice, we don't have to sit cross legged in a dark, quiet room and focus on our breathing to achieve this state.

9/11

 On this day in 2001, Brian Sweeney was aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 175, moments before it would crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. In what would be his final act, he left a voicemail for his wife that continues to move us 24 years later.

“I just want you to know I absolutely love you,” Sweeney told his wife’s voicemail. “I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I’ll see you when you get here.”

(above excerpt from Ryan Holiday Daily Stoic message September 11th 2025)

Thoughts: To me this is the light in the dark and as long as there is a glimmer of love even in the darkest of circumstances it can be nurtured and fanned into strength by those who choose to hear beyond fear, hate and terrorist acts.

Fools

 "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard P. Feynman

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."
Richard P. Feynman

Thoughts: 

How easy to fool ourselves when we are busy trying to prove ourselves right (or left or even somewhere in between). 

Life is not about trying to prove that our view is the correct one, and yet we waste a lot of energy trying to keep our beliefs intact and protecting them from anything different. 

What you believe is your choice, and if you want to share it without trying to convince me, and with respect and curiousity, I want to hear it. That is the way I learn things outside my experience.

how much good inside a day

“How many slams in an old screen door? 

Depends how loud you shut it. 

How many slices in a bread? 

Depends how thin you cut it. 

How much good inside a day? 

Depends how good you live 'em. 

How much love inside a friend? 

Depends how much you give 'em.”

Shel Silverstein

 

Where the light gets in

 "Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything .That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

Thoughts: I'm just now learning the lyrics to some of my favourite songs, expect more!!