Given To, by Ruth Bebermeyer

I never feel more given to
than when you take from me –
when you understand the joy I feel
giving to you.

And you know my giving isn’t done
to put you in my debt,
but because I want to live the love
I feel for you.

To receive with grace
may be the greatest giving.
There’s no way I can separate
the two.

When you give to me,
I give you my receiving.
When you take from me, I feel so
given to.

-Song “Given To” (1978) by Ruth Bebermeyer
from the album, Given To.

Source: http://www.thrivingnow.com/for/Rick/given-to/

A Vision of Education

A Vision of Students Today: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

„I DID NOT CREATE THE PROBLEMS… BUT THEY ARE MY PROBLEMS“

…

And the vision of professors today: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=125

„Because I believe

all that stands between civilization and barbarism

is education.“

10 things we can do to contribute to internal, interpersonal, and organizational peace

1. Spend some time each day quietly reflecting on how we would like to relate to ourselves and others.
2. Remember that all human beings have the same needs.
3. Check our intention to see if we are as interested in others getting their needs met as our own.
4. When asking someone to do something, check first to see if we are making a request or a demand.
5. Instead of saying what we DON’T want someone to do, say what we DO want the person to do.
6. Instead of saying what we want someone to BE, say what action we’d like the person to take that we hope will help the person be that way.
7. Before agreeing or disagreeing with anyone’s opinions, try to tune in to what the person is feeling and needing.
8. Instead of saying “No,” say what need of ours prevents us from saying “Yes.”
9. If we are feeling upset, think about what need of ours is not being met, and what we could do to meet it, instead of thinking about what’s wrong with others or ourselves.
10. Instead of praising someone who did something we like, express our gratitude by telling the person what need of ours that action met.

Source: The Center For Nonviolent Communication, http://www.cnvc.org/tensteps.htm

The first epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapter 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away.
If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.

What verb do you wanna spend your life with?

What verb do you wanna spend your life with?

„… for in movement there is life, and in change there is power…“

„It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.“
Alan Cohen