jeff miller
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jeff miller
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. The fundamental reaction to any mistake ought to be this: “W
... See more- be still, and know that I am God be still, and know be still BE -David, Psalm 46
- Sit down alone and in silence. —St. Symeon the New Theologian
- I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk. But it’s spring, and the thrush is in the woods, somewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing… I am touching a few leaves. I am noticing the way the yellow butterflies move together, in a twinkling cloud, over the field. And I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening... See more
Act today as if you experienced yourself as a powerful presence in the world, full of confidence and energy whose influence is important to others.
-Understanding the Enneagram, 125
why do we lock doors? usually because we’re afraid of the dark... the darkness outside; the darkness inside.
“You know
so very well
the edge
of darkness
you have
always
carried with you,”
writes the poet David Whyte.
Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”
… Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking,
is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,
and to know that tangled among them and
terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
- No manufacturer ever got rich by underpaying his agency. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys. — David Ogilvy
