The stroke of insight of Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist. So you will soon understand the extraordinary insight she got when one morning, she woke up with a terrible pain on the left temporal lobe. As a person, she was both living an intense connective experience and a struggle for survival against a stroke. As a scientist, she had a unique insider experience of what a stroke does, and what it means. As her brain functions (motion, speech, memory, self-awareness, etc.) were shutting down one by one, she started to experience an intense connectedness, the loss of the constant brain chatter, the loss of the sense of self and separatedness.
“How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”
Jill Bolte Taylor
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Love is not… Love is…
If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn’t love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
May You Always Experience This Kind Of Love,
Dr. Howdy
Inspiration board
Table of contents for Daily dose of inspiration
- Inspiration board
- Green poem on a bed of shiny leaves
- Blue sky or storm?
As I was looking for some visual “inspiration” in Flickr, I came across a number of posts entitled “inspiration board” or “wishboard”. Very appealing visually, these are also very good ways to focus your attention, creativity and presence on topics that are important to you
Do you think there is a way to use similar principles in a business context? Would the floral and zen images look too flimsy and unprofessional? Or, on the contrary, would it be a great way to spawn some extemporal creativity and step away from the focus on the immediate result?
Green poem on a bed of shiny leaves
Table of contents for Daily dose of inspiration
- Inspiration board
- Green poem on a bed of shiny leaves
- Blue sky or storm?
Keep dreaming your dream,
Stay true to yourself,
Choose the path of faith over fear,
Revise the journey as your intuition guides you,
Know that this life as you know it now
Will come to an end,
Live for today,
Live today,
Live.
Live creatively,
Be as unique as you want,
But not to be different, rather to be yourself,
Go for it,
Relinquish your doubts,
How would they help you?
Dance, play music, laugh, connect, write,
Every day God gives you.
Contribute.
Blue sky or storm?
Table of contents for Daily dose of inspiration
- Inspiration board
- Green poem on a bed of shiny leaves
- Blue sky or storm?
“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t have the same horizon.”
– Konrad Alexander
As I was reading this quote, I remembered the skies over my boarding school, when I was 14-to-17 year-old, in France. Living in a formal catholic boys school, in the remote Rhone valley countryside, was a unique experience. And not all the interns were living the experience the same way. We were living together all the time, so we were literally under the same sky. And some would bloom under bright rays of lights, be they the words of God, or the company of good friends. Others would slowly dry out and shrink, to protect themselves from the insulation and the lack of activities except reading, running and studying.
These words from Alexander can be a great metaphor to use practically on a regular basis. As we tend to get used to a question, our response often becomes automatic Questioning and step back disappear. That’s where metaphors come handy, helping us see things under a different light, and focus, be present to the question again.
So what horizon do you want for your life: blue skies? gray skies? storms? hurricane? Do you envision sunrise, midday or sunset? How do you find this horizon? What kind of weather is above your head right now? And how do you cope with the weather where you are?
Inspiration baked in WordPress
WordPress is trying to get you to join the awareness movement 
If you have ever looked at theme galleries, you can but not miss the following posting, which is really in the line of what we are trying to convey:
Have you tried any of these lately?