Carl Rogers shares a personal slogan that got him through times of uncertainty and doubt. From The Evolution of Psychology Conference in 1985.

“What I am is good enough, if only I can be it openly.”

What is creativity? A neuropsychology definition.

Excerpt from “On Being” interview with Rex Jung.

(Source: onbeing.org)

The difference between creativity and intelligence? Transient Hypofrontality. :)

Excerpt from “On Being” interview with neuropsychologist Rex Jung.

(Source: onbeing.org)

Last night, as I was sleeping

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that a spring was breaking

out in my heart.

I said:  Along which secret aqueduct,

oh water, are you coming to me,

water of a new life

that I have never drunk?
 

Last night, as I was sleeping

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that I had a beehive

here inside my heart.

And the golden bees

were making white combs

and sweet honey

from my old failures.
 

Last night, as I was sleeping

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that a fiery sun was giving

light inside my heart.

It was fiery because I felt

warmth as from a hearth,

and sun because it gave light

and brought tears to my eyes.
 

Last night, as I was sleeping

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that it was God I had

here inside my heart.

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is made available … a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” —Fred Hoyle, 1948 THE OVERVIEW EFFECT

Now we will count to twelve

and we will all keep still.
 

For once on the face of the earth

let’s not speak in any language,

let’s stop for one second,

and not move our arms so much.
 

It would be an exotic moment

without rush, without engines,

we would all be together

in a sudden strangeness.
 

Fishermen in the cold sea

would not harm whales

and the man gathering salt

would look at his hurt hands.
 

Those who prepare green wars,

wars with gas, wars with fire,

victory with no survivors,

would put on clean clothes

and walk about with their brothers

in the shade, doing nothing. 
 

What I want should not be confused

with total inactivity.

Life is what it is about;

I want no truck with death.
 

If we were not so single-minded

about keeping our lives moving,

and for once could do nothing, 

perhaps a huge silence

might interrupt this sadness

of never understanding ourselves

and of threatening ourselves with death.

Perhaps the earth can teach us

as when everything seems dead

and later proves to be alive.
 

Now I’ll count up to twelve

and you keep quiet and I will go.

Penned by the inimitable Pavirthra Mehta. Designed by the unflappable Gurinder Mehta.

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The man of our time is losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating, he seeks to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.

~Abraham Joshua Heschel from “Who Is Man?”

Read + Hear more about Rabbi Heschel in The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel

photo by Steve Schroeder

I
the cry goes out:
“you broke the contract!”
“you can’t do that!”
“you can’t defy me!”

II 
the reply trembles down:
“who darkens my counsel
with words, without knowledge?”

III
oh, how ridiculous to say
“you can’t” to someone who
just did.

IV
after all,
what guarantees are there
in life? imagine babies born
with a warranty!

V
what would you say
to [uber powerful] extra-terrestrials
who deem human life
undeserved?

VI
ultimately, what gives us the right?
to do anything?

VII
fierce is a love
so terrible
it nullifies
all protestations,
so alluring
it—indeed—cannot
be resisted.

VIII
or at least
that’s what time
teaches us—
if we care
to learn.