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3 Life-changing Questions

by marc | Wed, 09/22/2010 - 9:09am
3 Life-changing Questions

Harry Roberts was a friend and teacher of mine while I lived at Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm. He was fond of saying that life is very simple — all you have to do is answer three questions:

1) What do you want?
2) What do you have to do to get it? And
3) Can you pay the price?

After stating these questions he would usually laugh heartily, saying, yeah, real simple; most people don’t ever ask themselves the first question.

Less Fear

by marc | Fri, 09/03/2010 - 12:23pm
Less Fear

A mind that has any form of fear cannot, obviously, have the quality of love, sympathy, tenderness. Fear is the destructive energy in man.
— J. Krishnamurti

Fear can be a useful ally. It can focus us, keep us safe, even at times keep us alive. Fear of illness or injury can motivate us to stop smoking, to exercise, and to eat healthier food. In our communities, it can motivate us to make our air and water cleaner, our bridges and levees stronger, our workplaces safer.