I love this.
In addition, here's a thought:
My mother used to tell me all the time, whenever I was facing a difficult decision, "You can only make the best choice possible, based on what you know RIGHT NOW. Later, you may know more. Then you may be tempted to judge yourself harshly for the decision you made today. But decide right now to forgive yourself in advance for what you did not know — and could not know — today. So make your decision, and move on."
(Clearly, you can see where I learned the notion of ONWARD from.)
Thus: ONWARD!
LG
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Sydney, Australia…on the river named for Captain Cook himself!
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Cooks River, Sydney
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS arrives in Sarajevo…our first sighting from Bosnia!
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SOAT in front of Sarajevo City Hall. From Bosnia with love <3 🙂
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INTEGRITY
I scrawled this little diagram on a piece of hotel stationery in Michigan last weekend, after Oprah's event.
This is a piece of simple wisdom that I picked up from Iyanla Vanzant's speech. She said that — in order to live a life of integrity — we must be certain that our minds, our hearts, and our voices are all saying the same thing at the same time.
She explained that, most of the time, we go through life with our mind saying one thing, our heart saying something else, and our voice saying something else altogether…"and then we get upset when people treat us like we're crazy!"
But of course it can only end in craziness, if these three points of the essential triangle aren't aligned.
Mind, heart, voice: All saying the same thing. Speaking in one united truth, no matter how difficult it might sometimes be to articulate. Gotta do it.
This is a good aspiration for me.
Gonna keep this little note forever.
ONWARD,
LG
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Western Australia…thank you, Perth!
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What a glorious day here in my garden in Perth, Western Australia. Perfect for reading the SOAT – for the third time!
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