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Shane Koyczan is my new favorite slam poet

Shane’s words and delivery are powerfully raw, authentic, and inspiring. In 2000 Shane was awarded the Individual Championship at the US National Poetry Slam Competition (The first Canadian to do so). He’s amazing. My other favorite slam poet is Anis Mojgani, There’s actually a lot of similarities between Shane & Anis in terms of substance [...]

Fear: Take him boldly by the beard

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.-Emerson

How’s Your Ride Through Life?

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” - Charles de Lint Do you know someone that seems to float through life? That everything seems to just happen for them? That they never really look stressed or like they’re trying too [...]

That Unknown Force Behind You

“The task ahead of you is never greater than the power behind you.” – Unknown. Have you ever noticed there’s a little something sometimes that propels you to go further, to try harder, to grasp tighter? Whether it’s a spiritual force or simply an innate soulful force, there’s certainly something. Just know that it is [...]

Strength From the Inside Out

“Real Tai Chi Chuan when looked at appears very simple. All of it,…however, is on the inside. The inside is trained so that it will affect the outside. Change occurs from the inside out.” Koh Ah Tee Ever gotten so overwhelmed with something on the inside that you feel frozen to do any sort of [...]

Fly Above the Storm

“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.” – William James Don’t question yourself so much. Maybe you should follow yourself more often than not. Crazy thought, eh? Your gut is trying to tell you something, so don’t  [...]

Zen Anger Management

A World Without Limits – What’s Next?

As life becomes smoother and less rocky, it’s like being in a state of quietness and then being at total peace. It’s an easy place to stay. It’s comfortable. But you do want more experience, don’t you? If you’re anything like me, then you crave it, you lust for it. We feel the urge inside [...]

Thoughts are cold, but feelings are warm, alive and vital

Every once in a while I go on a reading rampage. In fact, for a three month stretch during my last year in college, I was consistently reading four to six books per week (non course work related) and regularly checked out 15-20 books at a time from the library. In fact, it was a [...]

Questioning our goal of “climbing to the top”