February Soul Biz – 2012

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”  Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)   ******   “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau...

January Soul Biz – 2012

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better...

December Soul Biz – 2011

Come out of the circle of time,  and into the circle of love.  Rumi ****** We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  ****** I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round,  as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of,  in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by...

November Soul Biz – 2011

Bluebird by Mark Catesby [Bluebirds] make their nests in holes of trees, are harmless birds, and resemble our robin-redbreast. Mark Catesby *** A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb *** I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been...

October Soul Biz – 2011

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. -  Richard Nelson   Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -  Harold Whitman   The very purpose of our life is happiness; the very motion of our lives is toward...

September Soul Biz 2011

For John Beckner (1932-2011)   Quotes by John Muir   John Muir (1838 –1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books tell of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Millions have read them. He was the founder of the Sierra Club in which John Beckner was a member. Climb...