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The poet W. H. Auden once said, “Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases man is responsible for his choices and must accept the consequences.” If we think about it, one of the biggest choices we can…

I came across a quote by auther and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr yesterday who observed, “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true, or beautiful, or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by…

The poet Rilke once offered this thought; he said, “Ich glaube an alles noch nie gesagte – “I believe in everything that has not yet been said.” Rilke’s belief was if we embrace our life’s biggest questions the answers will slowly emerge. In other words, Rilke trusted what has it yet to be said and…

I read yesterday how Nassim Nicholas Taleb defined a Stoic as someone who “transforms… pain into information.” We often want to shy away from or avoid pain, but usually it finds us regardless. Another way to approach and to frame pain is to perceive it as “information.” Pain can be seen as feedback that suggests…

I was driving past a “self storage” facility and those two words placed together made me consider how our “self” is often defined by the memories, ideas, and plans we keep at the forefront of our minds, as well as the memories, ideas and plans we choose to off-load and store in a place farther…

It was only the narration in a trailer for a generic TV show, but it offered a profound thought. The voice said, “Without truth you can’t trust.” Doesn’t that ring true? That truth is the foundation of trust. Our 20th Life Equation is Trust = Truth. ——