One of the most profound videos I’ve ever seen! Enjoy!
With kind regards,
Dieter
Alan Watts – Mind over Mind
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My Favorites May 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently
My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
Who You Really Are – Alan Watts
YES, LIFE IS RISKY-DIVE IN ANYWAY
Life comes at us in waves. Sometimes the surge ripples gently by. Other times it can pound the daylights out of us and leave us gasping for breath. How do we respond when that happens? Read here
My Pursuit of the Art of Living
For many years I simply lived, and got by.
But in the last few years, after learning a bit about habits and mindfulness and simplicity and love, I have changed my approach to living.
Now I see living as an art form, to be studied and played with and practiced and mastered. Of course, few ever master the art of living, and I don’t know if I ever will. Probably not.
But I can pursue this art. I can appreciate it when others do it well. I can learn about it, through experiments and observation and introspection.
My pursuit of the art of living is only just beginning, but I thought I’d share a bit about this pursuit with you, my good friends.
Leo Babauta, continue reading
Performance-Based Goals vs. Getting Better Goals
It’s time for more straight talk today on goal setting. So let me ask you this: What IS your quota this year? How about your revenue goal? I’ll bet it hasn’t gone down. Interesting approach. Read it here
Fascinating! – Leonard Nimoy Reveals the Meaning of the Vulcan Hand Gesture
With Leonard Nimoy’s passing, many fitting tributes are showing up in various places to honor “Mr. Spock.” Many of the pictures of him show his hand raised in the “Vulcan greeting.”
But, few people know the origin of that now internationally famous hand gesture. In fact, many people would be shocked to learn the truth. Watch here
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
My Favorites March 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently
My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
Follow Your Heart
Why Do We Search For More in Our Lives?
Is there a shift in the energy of the universe that is making people question this more than before? Is there a shift in me that I am hearing it more that I did? These are questions I have been pondering for a while.
Beautiful article by Hemla Makan-Dullabh; continue reading
The Calm Approach
When we are anxious, it’s because we want to be somewhere at a certain time (if we’re driving), or want something to happen the way we want it to happen (in the rest of life). But this deadline, this goal, this need … it’s entirely self created.
We create the need to be somewhere at a certain time. We create the need for things to turn out the way we want them to turn out. We create the desire for other people to act (or drive) the way we want them to act or drive.
We create our own anxiety. And so we have the keys to solve our own problems.
Leo Babauta at his best; continue reading
10 Habits Of People Who Follow Their Dreams
I like best # 9. They’ve learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
They don’t get stuck in having all the answers, making things perfect or trying to gain comfort by controlling everything. Instead, they’re aware that they’re not going to see the next step until they make the decision to move forward despite the discomfort.
Read all of them here
Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature
Book Recommendation: Me…Jane
How Jane Goodall Turned Her Childhood Dream into Reality: A Sweet Illustrated Story of Purpose and Deep DeterminationA heartening testament to the power of undivided intention.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
My Favorites November 2014: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently
My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!
Is Your Ego Your Servant or Your Master?
Everyone talks about the ego: ego trips, healthy ego, negative ego, big ego, get rid of your ego, even kill your ego. But what is the ego? Is there such a thing? Or is the ego just a version of our hyper-inflated need for security in a world of apparent threats? Great article, read it here
To Simplify Is To Amplify
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
We immerse ourselves in a fast paced schedule and make life complicated. When we focus on what’s important, we take complicated things and make them simple. This simplification leads to the amplification of what we truly value. ... continue reading
Use the Power of Meditation to Create Wholeness in Your Life
I meet a great many people who come to me with the desire for change. Many are in the throes of decisions regarding health, business and/or relationships and most are in distress as to how to handle what is coming their way. My first question to these people used to be “Do you meditate?” but I have come to know that chances are good that they are in distress because they don’t. So, instead, my question becomes: “You don’t meditate, do you?” And when they say “no,” I begin to share with them the light of mindfulness.
Zen Mountain: Leave It All Behind
“What day is it?”
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Last weekend I spent nearly four days leading a retreat, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. To get to this Zen center, you make a journey through a twisting bumpy rising falling mountainroad, and then you’ve arrived.
And what a place to arrive at! It’s a place of peace, with a silently gushing river, people meditating all the time, everyone walking slowly, no distractions, constant gratitude and mindfulness. A beautiful place of peace.
As I contemplated the peace of leaving it all behind, I wondered why we need a place in the mountains for this kind of peace. continue reading here
The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts
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| The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts |
Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie
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| Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie |
And if you want to learn a little bit more about meditation visit MeditationSpirituality
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter Langenecker
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Busy-ness, Spiritual Wisdom, and Maya Angelou. My Favorites October 2014: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently
My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!
How to Live a Life That Matters: 5 Lessons from Maya Angelou
The desire to create lasting transformation in the world is what really drives us as leaders, right? Since the news of her death, I’ve been thinking a lot about Maya Angelou. Her legacy offers several valuable insights for living a life of true significance. Read here
Why We Humblebrag About Being Busy
We have a problem-and the odd thing is we not only know about it, we’re celebrating it. Just today, someone boasted to me that she was so busy she’s averaged four hours of sleep a night for the last two weeks. She wasn’t complaining; she was proud of the fact. She is not alone.
Why are typically rational people so irrational in their behavior? The answer, I believe, is that ... continue reading
Seth Gordon: Two kinds of busy
When I’m giving a speech, I don’t have the ability to squeeze in a phone call, think about what’s for dinner or plan tomorrow’smeeting. I’m doing one thing, and it’s taking everything I’ve got. So yes, I’m busy, all in.
On the other hand, we all are familiar with the other kind of busy, the busy of feeding one kid while listening to see if the other is still napping, while emptying the groceries, checking email and generally keeping the world on its axis.
I have two suggestions:
a. if you’re used to being one kind of busy, try the other one out for a change. You might find it suits you.
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b. if what you’re doing isn’t working, if you’re not excelling at what you set out to do or not getting the results you seek, it might be because you’re confused about what sort of busy is going to get you there…
The space between knowledge and wisdom
There is that moment of realization, when you see who you have become and you see who you want to be and yet there is no set of instructions on how to merge the two or to get from one to the other. There is simply a knowing that you desire to be, something else. There is a long dark tunnel between knowledge and wisdom and I seem to be stuck there. Read the whole article here
And some spiritual thoughts of wisdom
Alan Watts – Give it away and it will come back
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| Alan Watts – Give it away and it will come back |
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
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