May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Open Mind, Clean Hands, Loving Heart
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
- Publilius Syrus
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today's affirmation:
I approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Art of Seeing
Choose the World You See
Each Other's Eyes
Simply Marvelous
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Choosing Compassion Toward ALL is Heroic
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Today's affirmation
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Trouble with Conformity
Make Decisions
Embrace Change
Do What You Know Is Right
Try Being Outrageous
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Great Futures Won't Happen Without Open Minds
Let today be a day to break with convention,
to try out new ideas and ways of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't need other people to have an open mind.
The crucial question is "Is my mind open?"
- Byron Katie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never returns to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar,
you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
Few new truths have ever won their way
against the resistance of established ideas
save by being overstated.
- Isaiah Berlin
Further reading: Cultivate Awareness
New Ideas
The Art of Seeing
You are the Window
Honor Your Roots
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Practice Stillness and Mindfulness
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Managing Your Wayward Mind
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Opening Your Mind
The World is a Paradox
Stay Adaptable
Saturday, November 22, 2025
At its best, education trains the mind to think and to question
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The principle goal of education in the schools
should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
Welfare of Our Children
The Nature of Learning
Teaching by Example
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
An Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
- Publilius Syrus
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today's affirmation:
I approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Art of Seeing
Choose the World You See
Each Other's Eyes
Simply Marvelous
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Be a Hero, Choose Compassion Toward ALL
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Today's affirmation
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Trouble with Conformity
Make Decisions
Embrace Change
Do What You Know Is Right
Try Being Outrageous
Monday, August 4, 2025
Choose to Open Your Mind
Let today be a day to break with convention,
to try out new ideas and ways of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't need other people to have an open mind.
The crucial question is "Is my mind open?"
- Byron Katie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never returns to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar,
you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
Few new truths have ever won their way
against the resistance of established ideas
save by being overstated.
- Isaiah Berlin
Further reading: Cultivate Awareness
New Ideas
The Art of Seeing
You are the Window
Honor Your Roots
Friday, February 7, 2025
Live Mindfully
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Managing Your Wayward Mind
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Opening Your Mind
The World is a Paradox
Stay Adaptable
Friday, November 22, 2024
Focus on Asking the Right QUESTIONS
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The principle goal of education in the schools
should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
Welfare of Our Children
The Nature of Learning
Teaching by Example
Monday, August 19, 2024
Keep yourself clean and bright
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
- Publilius Syrus
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today's affirmation:
I approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Art of Seeing
Choose the World You See
Each Other's Eyes
Simply Marvelous
Friday, August 9, 2024
Break from the Pack
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Today's affirmation
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Trouble with Conformity
Make Decisions
Embrace Change
Do What You Know Is Right
Try Being Outrageous
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Open Your Mind
Let today be a day to break with convention,
to try out new ideas and ways of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't need other people to have an open mind.
The crucial question is "Is my mind open?"
- Byron Katie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never returns to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar,
you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
Few new truths have ever won their way
against the resistance of established ideas
save by being overstated.
- Isaiah Berlin
Further reading: Cultivate Awareness
New Ideas
The Art of Seeing
You are the Window
Honor Your Roots
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The Mind that is Still
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Managing Your Wayward Mind
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Opening Your Mind
The World is a Paradox
Stay Adaptable
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Learn How to Reason
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The principle goal of education in the schools
should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
Welfare of Our Children
The Nature of Learning
Teaching by Example
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Keep Your Hands Clean and Your Mind Open
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
- Publilius Syrus
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today's affirmation:
I approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Art of Seeing
Choose the World You See
Each Other's Eyes
Simply Marvelous
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Most Difficult Act of Heroism
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Today's affirmation
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Trouble with Conformity
Make Decisions
Embrace Change
Do What You Know Is Right
Try Being Outrageous
Friday, August 4, 2023
Keep an Open Mind
Let today be a day to break with convention,
to try out new ideas and ways of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't need other people to have an open mind.
The crucial question is "Is my mind open?"
- Byron Katie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never returns to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar,
you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
Few new truths have ever won their way
against the resistance of established ideas
save by being overstated.
- Isaiah Berlin
Further reading: Cultivate Awareness
New Ideas
The Art of Seeing
You are the Window
Honor Your Roots
Saturday, February 4, 2023
The Still Mind
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Managing Your Wayward Mind
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Opening Your Mind
The World is a Paradox
Stay Adaptable
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Learning to Research and to Reason
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The principle goal of education in the schools
should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
Welfare of Our Children
The Nature of Learning
Teaching by Example





