If you wish to be out front,

Then act as if you were behind.

Lao Tzu, 6th Century B.C.

If you add a cup of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get a barrel of sewage.

If you add a cup of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get a barrel of sewage.

This is the Non-reciprocal principle.

Q: What did one Zen practitioner give to another for his/her birthday?
A: Nothing.

Q: What did the birthday boy/girl respond in return?
A: You are thoughtless for giving me this meaningless gift.

To which the giver replied, “Thank you.”

Welcome what you cannot avoid

“If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.“

~Lance Armstrong

The obstacle is the path.

“…if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing.

In that respect what we call “soul” can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation.

As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.”

~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Live every day like your hair was on fire.

“The way to do,  is to be.”