Carl Setzer

"All Our Dreams Can Come True, If We Have The Courage To Pursue Them." ~Walt Disney Finding and keeping this kind of courage is challenging at best. So much in life seeks to suck that out, to bring us down and drain our dreams into dust. Pursuing our dreams is often more work than surviving, but it's far more rewarding, giving life and energy.  May you find and nurture that inspires and invigorates you. 

This seems very relevant in these times: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my  fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. [ 2 ] From Dune, The Litany Against Fear. 

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”    ~ Albert Einstein Always strain against the status quo, my friends. That's how to grow.

I adore Albert Einstein! And I appreciate the notion behind this. Change is challenging, and critical, and, well, hard.

“One of the ways that I believe that people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something great, and to put it out,” ~ Steve Jobs Looks like a great mission statement. 

From my friend Digitalzen over at Digital Dharma . (I LOVE Leonard Cohen! Especially Hallelujah ). "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” ~Kofi Annan

From Fergus and the Druid, W.B. Yeats “A wild and foolish labourer is a king, To do, and do, and do, and never dream.” We’re so focused on doing, on completing and accomplishing and advancing that we forget to dream. Heck, many of us forget how to dream! With no dreams, there are no goals, thus no plans, so life becomes a wandering morass of unconnected and empty (if completed) task lists. So many of us dream of kingship, so it seems.

“The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.” - Thorstein Veblen This drives home a point that I’ve often meditated on; why is it that that exploration only whets the appetite for further exploration? I was once told that we’re close to knowing all there is to know. What a load of rubbish, eh? That was some time back (junior high, methinks). Well, whatever. What’s really amazing here is how powerful this is. So many folks think that the purpose of research is (simply) answering a question, finding the truth. Yet, the more you learn, the further you seem to be from the truth. Perhaps it is within the quest for knowledge that we learn how far from the truth we really were. Eh, sounds good…