Between

A life between fantasy and reality is a pretty great place to be.

Thoughts

Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your character
Your character become your destiny

- Ghandi

Fantasy

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope. Which is what I do, which enables me to laugh at life's realities." - Dr. Suess

Gestation

ges·ta·tion

noun
1. The period of development in the uterus from conception until birth; pregnancy.
2. The conception and development of a plan or an idea in the mind.

3. the period of such a development; in humans it is about nine months.

Zen

I just started reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I have tried to read this book many times before, but was never able to stick with it. When I saw my boss with his copy, I decided that was incentive to pick it back up and give it another try (perhaps he and I can finally begin our bonding, a' la book club style).

The first chapter discusses the benefits of taking the back roads instead of the main thorough ways. It explains that people have the opportunity to really connect with each other, themselves, and nature when they take these winding, slower roads. It went so far as to suggest that varying your route to work or school everyday is a good way to experience this. Today I took a different route to work. As a result, I was ten minutes late and found myself experiencing a mild form of road rage because the other motorists on this less-traveled path were in no hurry to get to work.

Hmmm... isn't that the point?

Love

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. " - Robert Heinlein

Contradictions

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions”- Maxine Hong Kingston

I saw this quote this morning on thebestlifeever.com and I loved it. I loved it because it struck me that there are an infinite number of possibilities in terms of how anything can turn out. Just when my limited mind thinks that it knows the outcome, I am reminded of infinite possibilities. Whew! This reminder comes not a moment too soon.