Latest Thoughts
Petrol for the Soul #272
How are you doing at thinking for yourself? Do you have a habit of examining your thoughts and engaging in healthy inquiry? Something thought provoking: Something beautiful/amazing: The wild card: Thanks for your time, have a great week!
Disappearing or Enriching?
I’ve got a bit of a quicker tid bit for you today. It came to me this week when talking to someone about the activities we get involved in to shape our lives. I heard this ten or fifteen years ago and kind of got it then but I really get it now. When I […]
Petrol for the Soul #271
What are you doing to put beauty into the world? Something thought provoking: https://youtu.be/oXWTI3llM5o Something beautiful/amazing: The wild card: Thanks for your time, have a great week!
What is Sacred?
When I’m talking to people throughout my day at work I attempt to talk about several key quadrants of our being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual is my go-to framework. Another one I use is: mind, body, spirit, and money. Needless to say that in most of our lives something around spirituality is on the […]
Petrol for the Soul #270
Ekstasis is the state of being outside ones self. We seek to do this in many many ways, including feeling ourselves against the forces of gravity, altered states through extrinsic chemicals, or through the altering of chemical states that can occur naturally in the body. This is where we want to feel speed in various […]
Content, safe, and easy.
I’ve recently been looking deeper into the experience of contentment. (The last few years.) I recognize in myself and others that there’s a line that we can teeter across between being happy with what we have or not. The keyword I will point out is “have”. There’ve been times in my life where I had […]
Petrol for the Soul #269
Experiences change us. Adventure calls us. Can you hear it? Will you answer it? Shape your mind, shape your reality, live life to the fullest! Something thought provoking: Something amazing/beautiful: The wild card: Thanks for your time, have a great week!
Pressure and Release
Everything happens in cycles. Seasons, life, growth, etc. The more we can understand how to ride those cycles, expand upon them, and build the capacity to remain intact while we’re either overwhelmed or bored from the outer fringes of them on each side the more we can enjoy those cycles as the beautiful sway to […]
Petrol for the Soul #268
Providing an act of kindness, receiving an act of kindness, and witnessing an act of kindness produces Oxytocin in our bodies. I don’t know about you but I sure do like feeling Oxytocin. Something thought provoking: Something beautiful/amazing: The wild card: Thanks for your time, have a great week!
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Hindsight can often be humbling. I’ve looked back many times and can admit that what I thought I was doing at the time seemed like a good idea but from a more mature perspective there were a lot of horrible ideas. When I look back at my behavior during my time as a young adult […]