The Simple is Often the Best

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Bill Moyers

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Simple Joys

Things Divine

Seeing Unexpected Beauty

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
       

Eyes To See Beyond

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Bill Moyers

Further reading: Simple Joys

Seeing Unexpected Beauty

Things Divine

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
       

Native Americans' Day (aka Columbus Day) 2017

Like slave-owners Washington and Jefferson, Christopher Columbus was a person of his times.
Moreover, like all persons of all times, Columbus possessed qualities to admire, and qualities to condemn.
In the century following Columbus' arrival in the Americas, 95% of the 70 million Native Americans were either killer by Europeans, or died from diseases brought by the Europeans.

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau

Read What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

Further reading: Success Tip: Drive Change

Courage to Take Action

Dare to Dream of Your Great Success - Mary Anne Radmacher
     

Beauty and Adventure in the Commonplace

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Bill Moyers

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Seeing Unexpected Beauty

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Simple Joys

Things Divine
  

Challenge Yourself

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Circumstance

Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges

The Eye-of-the-Storm

The Myth of Security

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Seeking

Live is an Adventure

New Worlds

The path of the adventurer is a path of joy - jlh

Adventurer

Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller

The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We fear the unknown, perhaps more than we fear anything else, and yet we are, at heart, adventurers. We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion. Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown, but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash that we must know in our hearts that our adventure is no more than a child's game. Perhaps we hope that the unknown is like the darkness of a cave and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle can illuminate the entire cave. Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.

As Helen Keller says, Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happen as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it.