Words

"Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel , to the way we make another person feel. All this and more simply by the power of positive words."

-Professor Leo F Buscaglia,teacher,writer and humanitarian, 1921-1998

My comments - I notice blunt honesty with words gives me greater empathy with his/her feelings. In short, to see what he/she is feeling, I have to stop listening to what he/she is saying and what I'm thinking and look inside myself. Then if I speak from this feeling and tell him/her what I understand him/her to be saying, he/she will gladly set me straight if I have not got it right.

Gentle reader, I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel. I dont want to merely listen to what you say. I want to feel what you mean. And I wont hold you to your words. Deep feelings are exposed by irrational words. So I want you to be able to say anything. Even what you don't mean.

Today

Today, I want to do things to be doing them, not to be doing something else. I do not want to do things to sell myself or do things for people so that I will be “nice”. I don’t want to work to make money. I want to work to work.

Today, I don’t want to live for, I want to live. And the way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is enough reason not to do it this way today.

“What do I really want to do in life? What is my purpose? ” My assumption is that I have a reason for living, that my life has a direction. But maybe we are not moving in one direction any more than history is…

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt…To force myself into a single job, to decide to be just one thing in life, would kill of large parts of me. Rather, I recognize that I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

I say to people, “I always do so-and-so” or “I never do so-and-so,” as if my individuality depends on such banal consistencies. “Next time I will…” or “From now on I will…” What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow? Or, do I really think there is anything more profoundly true about my interpretation of the situation, now that I’m in bed than there was when I was in the middle of it this afternoon?

Meaning does not exist in the future and nor do I. Nothing will have meaning in the long run. Nothing will mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with context. My meaningfulness is here and now. I may not even live to see the morning.

But it’s morning again. I have given another day. Another day to hear and read and smell and walk and love and glory. I am alive today.

I think of those who aren’t.

To My Critics

"It's not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with the sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "

....Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th US President and 1906 Nobel Peace Prize-winner

My comments : I welcome a negative feedback to none. I would rather have a person hate me than overlook me. As long I'm hated, I'm still making a difference. I have a choice of being right or being human. And to err, is human...I'm uncomfortable around gods !

The Rule Of One Percent

The rule of one percent reminds me that all I have to do is improve by one percent. That I can do. If I improve by one percent next week and again one percent the week after, by the end of the year I'm ahead by more than fifty percent. I can make big changes in anything and achieve great things in life by improving by one percent. Things can't help but improve if I keep at it one percent at a time...

I Am

a script for self-help, personal change and inner fulfillment...

I deserve to be,

I want to be,

I can be,

I will be,

I am.