Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.
~ Laurie Nadel
Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.
Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.
Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.
Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.
Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.
If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.
There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.
Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.
Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.
Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.
Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.
The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.
If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.
Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.
My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.
The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.
Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much
In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.
Finding your own metaphor for intuition is one of the best ways to give it form, an essential step in developing your intuitive thinking.
Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight
The part of your mind that believes intuitive knowing to be impossible is that part of your mind for which it is impossible.
Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.
The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.
Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.
Belief is the basis of intuitive behavior.
Believing is essential when changing any behavior
Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.
Whether you job involves chasing criminals, crouching numbers, or wrestling with paperwork, learning how to recognize and rely on those hunches and gut feelings can dramatically improve your job performance.
When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.
To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.
An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.
Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.
Intuition is a gift, an inner power that you can turn to whenever you need it.
