Category: Meditations

This car’s license plate seems to be ambitiously set on a goal, but frankly, it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere any time soon.

What circumstances are frustrating your goals?

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
–Maya Angelou

What has enabled you to rise up from an experience when you felt like you were trampled?

A water reed is the classic image of something that bends rather than breaking. Sometimes we need to stand strong like the mighty oak, but other times it just makes sense to bend to circumstances so that you can carry on.

When have you chosen to bend rather than break?

How do I cope with this overwhelming situation? What am I going to do to make it through? How do we right this wrong? The answer is pretty much always the same: whatever it takes.

What have you done when the situation demanded it that you didn’t think you would be capable of?

“I’m inspired by people that are marginal. I’m excited by their resilience.”
―Mira Nair

What have you learned about resilience from someone who lived, in one way or another, on the margins?