meaningfully

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

—
Osho 

make it count

love

create a bridge

We build too many walls 

and not enough bridges. 

~ Sir Isaac Newton

a truth

The worse thing you can say about another, 

contains a truth about yourself.

rebellion

I'm reading Sally Hogshead's book Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation. According to the online assessment, my primary trigger is Rebellion and my secondary trigger is passion. Find out your Fascination Score.

This finding has me thinking about rebellion and what makes someone a 'rebel'. What makes normal, everyday people challenge 'the way things are', push back against the status quo ... and act. 

We live in a connected age with access to mountains of information. What triggers you to get involved or not?

Michelle Obama, in speaking to an audience in South Africa, said...

"reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not your concern, or that if you can't solve all the world's problems then you shouldn't even try... refuse to remain a bystander when others are suffering."

Take your passion off the back burner; explore what motivates you.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~ Teddy Roosevelt

a remarkable power

I read this on Explore and fell in love with the idea.

visual impression

For the love of books and creativity.... and proof that characters exist in books as well as at Knopf.

perhaps...

My copy of E. O. Wilson's new book The Social Conquest of Earth just arrived, and I couldn't be happier. I have a huge love for Edward O. Wilson.

Here's the quick synopsis:

From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.

Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to how that group selection, not kin selection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves that history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology. Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, Wilson presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth's biosphere.

"There is no grail more elusive or precious in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition." ... so begins the prologue.

Referencing this Paul Gauguin painting on which Gauguin wrote the famous title, "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" E.O. Wilson asks, will we ever be able to answer these questions, and answers with a resounding... perhaps.