Ikigai Thought for Today: Ideas
Insights from the Thought Library
Audio narration by David Marlow
You will always find open on my desktop what I call my ‘Thought Library.’ It’s where I store all the best insights and ideas I come across.
Today I’m sharing five entries to inspire some pondering in your life.
Though these can be used in your Ikigai search, they aren't exclusive to that reflection.
Many of you will enjoy all five. Spend some time going deep into the meaning of each.
For a few of you, one idea will stand out and prompt a particular time of reflection.
Here goes…
“We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
Robert Brault
"Ripples. When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise."
Danielle Doby
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
"Pursue with the fullest energy
That which you already are
There is nothing to become."
-Wu Hsin
Quest well.
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." -- Simone Weil
Aligns beautifully with a book I'm currently reading...
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
by: David Brooks
Highly recommend.
Thank you David. All of those resonate loudly and clearly, especially with your voice behind them. What wonders would happen if we would teach this to the young.
On a lighter note I have one for you: "Being dead, is like being stupid,
It is only painful for others".