Doing and Being (vol. 6, no. 9)
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month:
1. Question:
- “There was a wise old sage who said, ‘There’s really only one question worth considering, and that is: What are you unwilling to feel?’” – Tim Ferriss borrowing from Tara Branch
2. Quote:
- “Physical activity has a peculiar luminous effect upon the judgement. The soundest views of life come not from the pulpit or the professional chair, but from the workshop. To saw a plank or nail down a shingle, to lay a stone square or paint a house evenly, to run a locomotive or raise a good crop of corn, somehow reacts upon the intelligence, reaching the very inward essential cell of wisdom; provided that the worker is brave, not afraid of his own conclusions, and does not hand his thinking over to some guesser with a large bluff. Doing makes religion. All the religion that is of any account is what we thresh out with our own hands, suffer out with our own hearts, and find out with our own visions. Doing creates faith. Doubt comes from Sundays, and other idle hours. The only people who believe the Ten Commandments are those who do them. Those who believe the world is growing better are they that are trying to make it grow better.” – Dr. Frank Crane (Doing Clears the Mind)
3. Poem:
Excerpt from The Weighing by Jane Hirshfield:
So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.
4. Something Inspiring:
- “In order to be, never try to seem” – Camus
5. No new project updates…it’s football season!
Thanks so much. And, have a great day! – shawn
