I want to live like this

Living without an agenda

Could our mind and our heart be big enough to just hang out in the space where we’re not entirely certain about who’s right and who’s wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we’ll find ourselves continually rushing around to try and feel secure again - to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication can happen only in that open space.

Pema Chodron

Deeply awash in admiration

I am filled with admiration for whomever developed this tactic. I want to meet him/her, so I can appropriate the strategic parts of his/her brain. I want to *learn* from this person.

Reposted from clever glenmarshall.

From lapiswitch

In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.

- Spanish proverb