From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow - Dawna Markova
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow
- Dawna Markova
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. - Dawna Markova
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d… - Dawna Markova
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d…
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance. - Dawna Markova
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sen… - Dawna Markova
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sen…
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh… - Dawna Markova
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh…
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will… - Dawna Markova
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will…
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, … - Dawna Markova
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, …
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen o… - Dawna Markova
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen o…
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