My newsletter has been sent out monthly since 1999. Though I’ve now switched to a blog format, you may find past issues of interest. As well, many of the best columns have been collected and published as Chicken Shi(f)t for the Soul.
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October 2010 – “If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend—that would be giving as the angels give.”
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August 2010 – “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
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June 2010 – “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
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May 2010 – “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
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March 2010 – “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
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January 2010 – “May 2010 be the year we all realize that everyone we know someday will die—and it’s time to live free, if only to show those around us it can be done.”
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November 2009 – “Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
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September 2009 – “We are at the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”
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July 2009 – “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
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May 2009 – “Happiness is an attitude: We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
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March 2009 – “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
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December 2008 – “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself —nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
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September/October 2008 – “All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”
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July/August 2008 – “I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.”
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June 2008 – “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
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April 2008 – “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
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March 2008 – “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
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February 2008 – “The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.”
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January 2008 – “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” and “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
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December 2007 – “People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”
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November 2007 – “When dealing with people, remember you are not
dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
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October 2007 – “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.”“Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.”
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September 2007 – “Communication is the real work of leadership.”
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Summer 2007 – “The reality for leaders of the past and leaders of the future is that in the past very bright people would put up with disrespectful behaviour, but in the future they will leave [their jobs].”
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June 2007 – “Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.”
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May 2007 – “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
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April 2007 – “The difference between a boss and a leader: A Boss says:
“GO”, a Leader says: “Let’s Go!”
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March 2007 – “To be without some of the things you want is an
indispensable part of happiness.”
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February 2007 – “Silence is the element in which great things fashion
themselves together.”
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January 2007 – “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
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December 2006 – “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
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November 2006 – “It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”
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October 2006 – “The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”
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September 2006 – “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.”
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July 2006 – “In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.”
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June 2006 – “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run – Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!”
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May 2006 – “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
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April 2006 – “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed
to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
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March 2006 – “He that can have patience can have what he will.”
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February 2006 – “To change and to change for the better are two different things.”
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January 2006 – “When you change the way you look at things, you change the way things look.”
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December 2005 – “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
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November 2005 – “Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality His character he takes with him.”
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October 2005 – “If you look without, the world of the many exists; if you look within, then the world of one [exists]. If you go outside you may achieve much but you will miss the one. And that one is the very center; if you miss it you have missed all.”
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September 2005 – “What we call experience is often a dreadful list of ghastly mistakes.”
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August 2005 – “That is well said,” replied Candide, “but we must cultivate our own garden.”
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July 2005 – “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear.”
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June 2005 – “Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.”
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