Mankind is No Island

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Mankind is No Island

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

- Gay Hendricks -

Mankind is No Island

"Mankind is No Island" is a cleverly crafted visual and musical narrative -- with a production budget of a whopping $57. Jason van Genderen shot this entire movie on a cell phone using emotive images found on street signage in Sydney and New York. Winner of the TropFest NY 2008 award, the world's largest short film festival, it is a three and half minute meditation on hope and hunger, on community and care, and on beauty and belonging. { read more }

Be The Change

Learn from a relationship, whether established or emerging, in a new way today.


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Disrupt Yourself

Sunday, September 4, 2011

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Disrupt Yourself

If we just shook and rattled the old chains, nothing would move. One must add one's own link to the chain. The more original the link, the greater the step forward.

- Frederic Chopin -

Disrupt Yourself

When Whitney Johnson decided to walk away from a stellar career on Wall Street, even close friends thought she might be making a mistake. But in Johnson's own words, "Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too." Six years into her transition she shares lessons gleaned from her journey, in this insightful Harvard Business Review post. { read more }

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Do something disruptive, something that feels right even though it might be unknown.


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Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

Saturday, September 3, 2011

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Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

- Saint Augustine -

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

"'Time' is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We've just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here's my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should know about time." This intriguing Discover Magazine explores Time from the standpoint of science. { read more }

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What does time mean to you. Reflect here with other readers. { more }


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An Accidental Activist

Friday, September 2, 2011

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An Accidental Activist

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

- Colin Beavan -

An Accidental Activist

"So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck our ideas away. I did. I'd tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I'm not capable of making a difference. I'd sit on my ideas, get on with my 'life,' and then feel angry at the world because the problems I cared about didn't get solved. I had that fear of going first. Then I took my first hapless step into what I call accidental activism. In 2006, I started a project where I lived as environmentally as possible for a year -- with my little family, on the ninth floor of an apartment building in the middle of New York City -- to attract attention to the world's environmental, economic, and quality of life crises. I had no experience as an activist. Yet suddenly my project caught fire." { read more }

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Take one small step towards one of your ideas for serving the world.


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The Best Goal is No Goal

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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The Best Goal is No Goal

It is not the road ahead that wears you out -- it is the grain of sand in your shoe.

- Arabian proverb -

The Best Goal is No Goal

"These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It's absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn't mean you stop achieving things. It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals. Consider this common belief: 'You'll never get anywhere unless you know where you're going.' This seems so common sensical, and yet it's obviously not true if you stop to think about it. [...] Goals as a system are set up for failure. Even when you do things exactly right, it's not ideal. Here's why: you are extremely limited in your actions. When you don't feel like doing something, you have to force yourself to do it. Your path is chosen, so you don't have room to explore new territory." Leo Babauta shares his counter-intuitive perspective. { read more }

Be The Change

Try out not having goals in some domain of your life, and notice the effects.


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