Wisdom Week Wrap-Up
Quotes that are food for thought
So many great quotes come out of my conversations with my guests! So I thought I’d start a weekly piece with some words that might get you thinking. (Bear with me on this. I’m also aggressively building my YouTube channel (subscribe there too!), working on an international talk for an oncology meeting, and the next book, and making a nearly one thousand mile move in August-September!) So I may be a bit imperfect in my consistency until I get resettled. But there’s no better place to start than the present!
From this week:
“Life’s going to give you lemons. And you have a choice. You can either choose to let life destroy you or you can make it the best that it can be with your circumstances.” -Whitney Prude
From this week’s podcast some perspective on the reality of life. It’s not linear; it’s not guaranteed. Everyone will hit a bump in the road. What will you do with it? And can you find purpose in a new direction?
“I’ve been successful and a high performer all my life, but I didn’t give myself enough time to sit with my own thoughts, understand who I am at a core level.” -Constantin Morun
Society distracts us. Everything is urgent. We’re defined by our jobs, our roles and our possessions. But stripped of that, who are you? It’s a question worth pondering.
I started off over the years with “Wharton grad”, (ex)Wife, Pilot. But these days I’d answer that question with qualities rather than roles: curious, adventuresome, empathetic, kind. While I don’t perfectly embrace these qualities, they are attributes that are important to me and I work at bringing them into my daily life.
How do you define yourself? What guides you?
“The deeper I got into my body, the more my heart actually would break wide open.”- from the Duality podcast, Cherie Aimee.
Cherie Aimee is a remarkable person. Health issues forced her into nearly unbearable isolation. An NDE (near death experience) changed her outlook on her life and her sense of purpose. Through it all, she learned to look within for timeless, heart felt wisdom.
This world doesn’t teach us to cultivate heart-felt wisdom. Cherie reminds us of its importance.
I tend to live in my head so I also work at connecting with my heart. I meditate, I set aside much of the babble of day to day life, and I tune in, with my hand over my heart. I am still and I listen. I make it a point to move my body, conscious of its ease and grace (even though it’s part bionic). And I’m grateful to simply be able to go for a walk. Because there were times when I couldn’t. My heart revels in the cadence of my step.
What do you do to tune into your heart?