Surprise
The wisest people I have encountered have at least one thing in common:
Advantage
Another of Fred Craddock’s stories:
Intentions and Values
As I said yesterday, a resolution on its own is not robust enough to effect change.
Starting again
For many years I refused to make new year’s resolutions.
Refusing to refuse
The poet and philosopher David Whyte observes that humans seem to have the unique quality to resist being who we are.
A too-small reality
It is easy to get caught in the web of a too-small vision of reality
Predictability
We are creatures of habit. We like to know what we know.
Boxing day
Its archaic origins shrouded in the mists of time, “Boxing Day” dates back to the 1830s
Simplicity and complexity
Oliver Wendell Holmes is quoted as saying,
Knowing is not doing
It’s so obvious a statement that it’s not particularly interesting. It illustrates the point that knowing something (saying “knowing isn’t doing”) by itself is not very compelling.