Some very wise words from Mr. Thomas Edison,
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The LightHeart Institute
The Power of Vulnerability
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:
How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough – that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
Click on the link below to hear her speak!
Click on the link below to hear her speak!
(Source: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Love does
Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something that most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those ‘we’ll do it next time’ deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no ‘next time’ because passing the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
Love Does, Bob Groff
Risks
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
What risks have you taken today? What have you learned from them?
Self-acceptance
The proper nourishment for personal growth is a loving acceptance and encouragement by others not rejection and impatient suggestions for improvement. Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. We have said that personal growth resembles physical growth: all the energies and tendencies are there.
But there is in most of us a civil war that stunts our personal growth. It is our inner struggle for self-acceptance.
Excerpt from Will the Real Me Please Stand Up? by John Powell, S. J.