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What do you like most about your life right now?
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Megan Whitney Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:29
I didn’t wake up this morning to an alarm. I just got up when I was ready, lately it’s been shortly after 8:30. It’s lovely to be awake in the mornings; to enjoy a cup of coffee and listen to the birds chirping. Not to sound cliché, but everyday really is an exciting new adventure for me with more possibility than I could ever imagine.
Sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky, and then I realize luck isn’t happening to me, my luck is happening because of me. Not to sound too much like Palulo Coelho (which would never be a bad thing anyway, thank you Kevin Foster), but the luck I seem to be having is only happening because I haven’t ignored my heart. Instead I listened to it, followed it to where I wanted to be.
At the moment I’m sitting at a little coffee shop I just happened upon, Fair Bean Coffee. It’s right down the street from where I live, has organic, fair trade coffee, and yummy vegan treats. Austin has a lot of these places, you just have to know where to look… although this place seems to have found me. It feels good just being here. I like to follow the Vegan concept of “do least harm”, or perhaps it’s a Utilitarian concept of “do most good.” Regardless it’s positive, and positive begets positive. Maybe that’s why I seem to like so much about my life right now, because it’s all, simply put, good.
I encourage everyone to throw caution to the wind, follow their hearts and do good. Which, of course, doesn’t mean you have to be good. ;) But that’s for another day.
The Fear of Being Alone (Revised)
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Megan Whitney Saturday, 13 June 2009 16:41
Here's a revision of "The Fear of Being Alone." Check it out, and let me know what you think.
on the day you forgot
about me, and
my extraordinary brightness,
I did not cry
birthed by the fear of being alone
you willingly betrayed
a daughter whom you loved,
or didn’t
but a strangers seedling
grows nothing familiar
and even if it could,
you still wouldn’t care.
Where are you?
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Megan Whitney Sunday, 17 May 2009 01:57
Today has been a good and I realize how blessed I am to have it.
I was sitting at Starbucks (don’t shoot, Beau likes it. Perhaps it’s the cleanliness or the familiarity. The people are friendly enough and I suspect the girl behind the counter has a bit of a crush; it strokes his and he gets free coffee…) and as I sit, sipping my unknown tea which I had the clever barista pick out for me, and reading Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a seemingly scatterbrained man came up to me talking in sketches about what Pirsig left out in regards to the realm of logic: Euclid, Pythagoras, and Christ. This got me thinking that perhaps I missed something. Though both based in logic, Euclid and Pythagoras were fathers of geometry; Aristotle, while he studied Pythagoras, was more interested in the search for truth from a rhetoritician’s
(this may or may not be a word) point of view. Where the eccentric man tied the two together was through Christ and if this is the case of course I missed it. I live in a world surrounded by Christ, but have done little study of his teachings.
Then, he handed me a red piece of paper that had been photocopied from a notebook; a “poem.” It looked more like a rough chicken scratch of notes. He abruptly ran off before I caught his name and it doesn’t appear that he signed his musings. I wish he would have. I was interested in him, wanted to listen to him talk. I miss those discussions that lend themselves so well to an out of body experience of sorts. I seem to have lost my intellect; this man seemed to be waving it in front of me. He was mocking me, before running out the door taking it to places unknown or the hostel.
No wonder John left and seemed wholly disinterested in everything I had to say. He was looking for the part of me that just isn’t here anymore. I need to find her again. I leave with this to be answered: where do my values lie and why is beauty so important?
From Man's Search for Meaning
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Megan Whitney Friday, 15 May 2009 18:23
A great quote to start your life on, welcome!
Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.Viktor Frankl
W. H. Murray Quote
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Megan Whitney Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:20
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"" ~ W.H. Murray
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