Opportunity

The greatest opportunities occur far sooner than most people are ready to notice them. (…) Some of the fun in life and business is to be at the leading edge – on the curve instead of behind the curve.

The idea is to be flexible and fast on your feet, eager to play in newly dawning arenas. When you relocate your personal zip code to this place, you’ll find some really cool people who have been waiting for you to join them.

Thomas J. Leonard, The portable Coach.

Shaun McNiff

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.
Shaun McNiff.

Anaïs Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin.

défricher

Pour frayer un sentier nouveau,
il faut être capable de s’égarer.

(To clear a new path,
it is necessary to be able to be mislaid.)

Jean Rostand (via guylaine)

Holidays blogging

I must admit, the content of this blog is quite different from what it is during the rest of the year.

I am on holidays, I am rested, at peace, out of this buzy-ness but still full of ideas and fire burning inside.

Filling my head with words i love to read, authors that inspire me.

‘Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. We live and die, age beautifully or full or wrinkles. We wake in the morning, buy yellow cheese, and hope we have enough money to pay for it. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn’t matter.‘
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg.

This paragraph has been written for writers-to-be, somewhere around 84. I like to think that in 2006 we can all be writers.

Expand

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anaïs Nin

Ordinary

“We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our mind that open or close.”

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg.

Trust

‘Love it all. The fear, the excitement, the guilt. The power for change, the unworthiness, the hunt, feelings, the euphoric feelings, the anger, the movement, the whole process, it’s know as life.’

Unknown.

From ‘The true and the Questions’ by Sabrina W. Harrison.

Next. Et maintenant.

In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. In casual practice, the term came to prominence in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and early 1970s. Earlier countercultural milieus in 19th century Europe included the traditions of Bohemianism and of the Dandy.

Contre-culture.

Massive Change

“The future of global design is fundamentally collaborative. In this condition there is no room for censorship.”
- Massive Change

More on meïdia’s blog.

Attar (Farid al-Din)

Reste devant la porte si tu veux qu’on te l’ouvre. Ne quitte pas la voie si tu veux qu’on te guide. Rien n’est fermé jamais, sinon à tes propres yeux.

Attar (Farid al-Din)

et je le répéte on-a-on :
Rien n’est fermé jamais, sinon à tes propres yeux.

Just ask for watcha want and believe you can have it. Aide toi et le ciel t’aidera. Je sais plus comment l’écrire, mais on a tous autour de nous de ces gens qui sont bornés et qui entretiennent la noirceur autour d’eux, qui peut importe ce qui arrive croient en une conspiration contre tout ce qu’ils font, et s’isolent du reste du monde en devenant amère devant la réussite de quiconque.

À eux je dédie cette citation.

(citation via alex lauzon, aussi célèbre pour ces citations sur l’internet).

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Lululemon manifesto

‘Caus i like manifestos…

Write down your short and long term GOALS four times a year. 2 personal, 2 business and one health goal. A class study at Yale found only 3 percent of the students had written goals. 20 years later, the same 3 percent were wealthier than the other 97% combined.