Archive for February, 2011
055 Weekly Quote
by Charles on Feb.28, 2011, under Weekly Quote
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Question the premise, find the truth.-The Eadarian Poet
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054 Weekly Quote
by Charles on Feb.21, 2011, under Weekly Quote
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To live free, think.-The Eadarian Poet
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039 Creative Journey
by Charles on Feb.16, 2011, under Creative Journey Blog
Hello my friend,
Welcome to the 39th installment of The Creative Journey, the experience of one Charles Yerkes, Eadarian Poet, perpetuator, and otherwise mildly creative and excessively modest personage.
Wearing our good fortune well.
It seems only reasonable that we would be extremely happy if good fortune came our way. And that this joy would then overflow into all aspects of our lives. That from this, we would become a joy to be around, a well spring of encouragement to others. So others, from the outflow of our joy, would also have some good fortune. Our good fortune has become a source of their good fortune. This is logical and this is noble, the result of a life well lived.
However, in practice, we too often deny others this brush of greatness, this touch of joy, for various, well meaning, and what might be considered, high-sounding reasons.
• “What right do I have to be so blessed while others suffer?” – humble sounding right?
• “Oh, one should not enjoy good fortune too much. For the bottom will fall out soon and then where will you be?” – reasonable sounding eh?
• “Oh, I am grateful, but I don’t want to make others feel bad that they are not also so fortunate.” – compassionate sounding is it not?
All these and many other similar statements, thoughts, and beliefs do contain a smidgen of truthful consideration, a touch of honest integrity. But, all good lies do the same.
That is why people buy into them. There is just enough truth to make them sound right; but not enough for them to actually be truthful, helpful, or healthful.
True, you may be better off than some and have more good fortune than others; yet why automatically assume that the effect this has on others will be negative. By not being true to yourself, not allowing good fortune to be worn graciously, you are limiting the resources available to others. Others who are looking for inspiration, for encouragement, and for help in knowing that good fortune can favor all (to one degree or another).
It just may be that the slight touch of your joy and gratefulness at being blessed will be just what they need to embrace the joy that lies waiting for them.
Now, do not confuse wearing fortune well with being arrogant and condescending (which are as vile as not wearing fortune well).
Wearing fortune well is about being content and joyous, a respite for others from life’s daily drudgery. The latter is… not.
Enjoy your good fortunes. Be thankful for all the wonder that is in you life.
Wear good fortune graciously; wear it well.
Charles Yerkes
Eadarian Poet, Perpetuator, Photographer, and Fiddle Player
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053 Weekly Quote
by Charles on Feb.15, 2011, under Weekly Quote
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Show respect to others, wear your good fortunes well.-The Eadarian Poet
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038 Creative Journey
by Charles on Feb.10, 2011, under Creative Journey Blog
Hello my friend,
Welcome to the 38th installment of The Creative Journey, the experience of one Charles Yerkes, Eadarian Poet, perpetuator, and otherwise mildly creative and excessively modest personage.
There is an old saying – “Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than just hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off.” – Oswald Chambers.
Being too afraid to fall off… I think this is one of the greatest threats to a life well lived. Being too afraid to let go of old dreams, desires, goals, thoughts, or actions. Too afraid to amend, change direction, quit and start something else.
Thinking, “If I can just hang on. Just a little longer and things will come around, thinks will start to work, things will get better.”
When in truth, if we would let go – fall off – and be tenacious without fear, we could better reach our dreams or see our way clear to new and more fulfilling ones. To reshape our goals to better fit where we have grown to be.
This has not been the smoothest of months here at the Eadarian Network and this, a hard lesson learned. But new, greater avenues lay open to us now. All because we reached a point where we let go, we “fell off” and stopped trying so hard to make everything work. I’ll not bore you with the details, but there came a time where shutting down the network had be seriously contemplated.
Instead, when we were able to let go and fall off of our preconceived thoughts and images about what this network was to look like, how to achieve its main purpose, and even what its main purpose was to be, new paths of reaching this opened up. New ways to open the riches of a well-lived life to others came into view.
That is the point of this post my friends. Don’t limit yourself by calling a fear of letting go, of venturing into the unknown, tenacity.
Yes, sometimes tenacity does lead you to hang on and sometimes for dear life. But at the point when the most tenacious thing you can do is to let go, have the courage to do so, for only then will you fall into the richer joys of a life well lived.
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Grow in peace my friends,
Live Nobly, Live Well.
Charles Yerkes
Eadarian Poet, Perpetuator, Photographer, and Fiddle Player
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052 Weekly Quote
by Charles on Feb.08, 2011, under Weekly Quote
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Be noble NOT nice.-The Eadarian Poet
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