Lesson 7 - Live both attentively and intentionally.
Ruminations
Thoughts in passing
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Lesson 6 - Do something difficult every year.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Lesson 5 - Lead by example.
Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.