“In life there are no barriers - only solutions!”
Neal Petersen tells his story with energy and feeling.
It is a story worth stopping for - to listen and then
to consider. In life there are no barriers - only solutions!
NPR interview of Neal Petersen
A Black South African’s Solo Sailing Odyssey
News & Notes, January 13, 2005
Growing up in a racially segregated neighborhood in Cape Town,
South Africa, Neal Petersen overcame both physical disability and
apartheid to become the first man of African heritage to race solo
around the globe in a sailboat — a journey that took him nine months
and covered some 27,000 miles. He recounts the tale in his recently
published autobiography Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to
the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing. He shares his incredible story of
courage with NPR’s Tony Cox.
His No Barriers website includes a video and links.
His speakers bureau friendly website has more.
acting on what matters.
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There is depth in the question “How do I do this?” that is worth exploring. The question is a defense against the action. It is a leap past the question of purpose, past the question of intentions, and past the drama of responsibility. The question “How?” - more than any other question - looks for the answer outside of us. It is an indirect expression of our doubts…. |
“Choosing Freedom, Service, and Adventure,” -Peter Block, Stewardship, (p. 234)
Quoted in the answer to how is yes, by Peter Block
Planet-hunters find bonanza of new solar systems
CNN, May 29, 2007
• 28 new planets found outside our solar system in the past year
• Scientists: There could be billions of habitable planets out there
• Four of the solar systems have multiple planets
• “Our home is not a rarity in the universe” says astronomer Geoffrey Marcy
28 newfound planets in Milky Way spur hunt for Earth look-alikes
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle Science Editor, May 29, 2007
All of a sudden the Milky Way is filling up with far-off solar systems never seen before — more and more planets of all shapes and sizes, wheeling in orbits around their own sunlike stars.
Difficulties are like the ornaments
Difficulties are like the ornaments
of a good practitioner.
Dharma is not practiced perfectly
amidst pleasant circumstances.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
quoted in Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be.
by Lama Surya Das.
Simultaneous Inclusion
Sometimes just the way we describe our activities is the source of much of our anxiety about how busy we are. For one, we could stop dividing our activity into mental categories that don’t serve us, like, for instance, busy/not busy, consequential/trivial. We could stop chopping our time into stress-producing shards of urgent/dispensable, superficial/deep, engrossing/boring. If we knew how to move beyond this judgmental categorization of everything we do, our lives could take on a flowing, nondual quality. From an activity-flow point of view, every task we do is inherently valuable, just because it’s what we’re doing right now. If we’re totally intent on what we’re doing right now and not half here because we’re preoccupied with something else, every movement, action and speech is an expression of our full being. We’re also not so concerned over whose time we’re on - the boss’s at work, the kids’ at home - resentful that we never seem to have our very own time. We realize that when we stop making these arbitrary divisions in what is actually a seamless expanse of time and movement, it’s all our own time….
The One Who Is Not Busy - Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way
Darlene Cohen, published 2004 by Gibbs Smith, Publisher Salt Lake City
