Thoughts: Now.
Thoughts: It starts here :)
I think Mr. Hemingway & I agree on this one – it just doesn’t work to have a short list going, when you measure out your day. Besides the obvious fun things, it seems to me it’s a nice move to add to the mix (gasp!): enjoying the work we have to do.
Maybe it’s singing when we work, or at least whistling.
Maybe it’s asking a friend along. Doing the dishes? Pour a glass of wine for your friend so they lean on the counter & visit while you scrub. Traveling to another city? Find a travel buddy. Starting a project? Declare it a PROJECT and gather a few like minded friends to look over it with you. Weeding the garden? Call a pal to come talk or pull weeds alongside you.
Maybe when you’re about to complain about some small thing, channel your inner-Robin Williams & think: “There MUST be a joke about this in here, somewhere.” Laugh it out,baby, laugh it out.
Maybe it’s adding to all this by doing the fun things we think about, and ditch the dreaming.
Isn’t this fun to think about?
It’s fun to have you around!
Brother Ian
PS> Disclaimer: I never met Mr. Hemingway. I put “have fun” on the Ten Most Important Things before he came to whisper this to me, in a dream.
Writings: Jim Carrey: “Don’t let fear turn you against your playful heart.”
I think this will fire you up for the morning….create a great day! 🙂
Thoughts: Play, brothers, play
See more of Chan Kwok Hung’s work here…
Thoughts: Setting fear aside….
Thoughts:
Thoughts: Ready. Now.
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything.
There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something – I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
– Hugh Laurie
Thoughts: Simply simple….
A friend told me that she has added the Ten Most Important Things According to Brother Ian (what ten? check here) to her morning practice…she does her morning asanas, meditates, pets the cat, then looks at the Ten Things before she sits down with her organic coffee & checks her e-mail, the news & other computer stuff.
This makes my heart glad, because I’m pretty sure those ten make the way we live & love each other that much better.
So, this goes with #2, as you already know:
Thoughts: You ARE what you think….(but you knew that)
What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.
From the readings of the Akashic Records of Edgar Cayce
About Brother Ian
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.