Category Archives: Inspiration

Jun 1, 2009

Resilience

Resilience is the ability to bounce back, pick yourself up and go on. It is the power to self-heal, renew and to always be taking the next step forward. It is in reconnecting to the line of your life and endeavor, joining it where it has moved to now, not where you left it last. Resilience has the quality of robustness; it is the capacity...

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Feb 12, 2009

“Are You Afraid Of The Work You Were Put Here To Do?”

Author Elizabeth Gilbert delivered a great TED talk, to challenge conventional paradigms about the nature of creativity. Here are a few questions to reflect on as you watch this: 1. Are you afraid of the work you were put here to do? 2. Do you have to suffer to find creativity? 3. What are the conditions you need and practices you use to enter the...

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Aug 20, 2008

Olympics Moments

The first two Olympic Moments I remember were Bob Beamon’s long jump at the Mexico City Olympics and Lasse Viren’s 10K run at the Munich Olympics. Beamon excelled so far beyond the world record (8.90 M) that it seemed unbelievable, as though, for a moment, he had defied gravity. It would take 23 years before his record was matched. Viren had fallen earlier in the...

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May 24, 2008

Discover The Universe

The impulse to look at the stars and to study the universe – this ancient quest to unlock these mysteries is ultimately a deep curiosity about life and its origin and about us, humans. “Man and woman are made in the image of God”. Hence the idea, that to study the human we study the universe. I am reminded of this impulse, watching Roy Gould...

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Mar 17, 2008

“Who Are We?”

Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight is an amazing testimony about the Left and Right Brain hemispheres, about a scientific passion to serve, about recover-ability driven by the human spirit and about “Who are We?” The miracle of Taylor’s story is first in how she was able to stay totally curious in a middle of a stroke episode, revealing that her fascination with brain function...

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Feb 26, 2008

Passionate Storytelling!

This story by Ben Dunlap tells of a Passionate Life that will move you to tears. It’s the power of his irresistible inspiration about courage and greatness that Dunlap communicates so evocatively. It is the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, that there is an insatiable curiosity and a desire to learn, and an irrepressible need to know and grow, and the inextinguishable drive...

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