“Anytime you can get thrown off your sense of well-being by conditions outside of yourself, you are powerless, in a state of reaction to the world around you. When the source of your experience is external, you have given away your power.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness Have you ever noticed how your immediate…
“To people who have not claimed their power, the question “What would you do if it was your life to live?” doesn’t seem like a joke question! If you haven’t claimed your power, you will be led along by others. Your choices will be born out of the popular culture of your time, or a…
“When you listen from the heart, you experience the listening as a doorway to other people’s experience; you hear what is being said from their perspective.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness If you truly want to understand another, there is no substitute for listening from the heart. The same goes for when you…
“Ambition focuses your power and gives it something to aim at. Honorable ambition is aligning with goals that not only benefit you but spread benefit into your community. Blind ambition would be the inverse of the honorable use of power, where success is treasured at any cost.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness As long…
“It usually takes some experience to grasp the absolute futility of the mindset that clings to right versus wrong, good guys versus bad guys. (It’s just impossible to get the bad guys to agree that they are indeed the bad guys!) Eventually you learn to get out of the argument. At the heart level, the…
Breath and Energy Are One “There are many ways to work with energy, but none better than breath. If only breath work cost a tremendous amount of money and took years to master — there might be more respect for its amazing power. But it’s free, and it’s something you can experience within forty-five seconds.”…
“Anytime you can get thrown off your sense of well-being by conditions outside of yourself, you are powerless, in a state of reaction to the world around you. When the source of your experience is external, you have given away your power.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness Have you ever noticed how your immediate…
“See and observe without judgment. This silent act requires no action at all — simply seeing and holding space for what you see without attitude about it — but it has a seemingly miraculous impact on those around you. It holds space for others to come into conscious awareness of that which they weren’t aware…
“When you listen from the heart, you experience the listening as a doorway to other people’s experience; you hear what is being said from their perspective.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness If you truly want to understand another, there is no substitute for listening from the heart. The same goes for when…
“To people who have not claimed their power, the question “What would you do if it was your life to live?” doesn’t seem like a joke question! If you haven’t claimed your power, you will be led along by others. Your choices will be born out of the popular culture of your time, or a…