loudbuzz sounding off

I was watching CSPAN tonight.

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No, really…it was interesting.

They had on, a series of commencement speeches.

This one I found interesting….

It was given by Jeffrey Immelt…CEO of General Electric,

to the 2007 graduates of the University of Notre Dame.

http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=23031

And the part I liked were his following lines:

“First, live with passion. Passion connects the mind with the heart.”

“Second, live with purpose. Purpose turns passion into reality.”

“Distinguish yourself through your determination. Commit yourself to build competency. Have a purpose to your life. You will define your own goals. Work hard and live your dreams.”

” You might be wondering, “why should it matter if I make plans from the top down versus the bottom up? Is there really a difference between top down and bottom up? Won’t all the steps be exactly the same?” The answer is almost always: NO! Why? Well there are many reasons, the main one is this: When you plan from the top down (starting from the end result you want and building your plans backwards to where you are now), you must take action IN ADVANCE to gain the knowledge needed to create the plan. This means you need to actually know (or be committed to learn) what the final steps are. Most people do not know what they are (which is perfectly normal), and/or don’t invest the time to find out (this is not good). What typically happens is people begin from the beginning (where they are right now) with an attempt to do things from the bottom up. Figuring out the first step to take from where they are now is usually easy to plan. And maybe the next 3 or 4 steps are also pretty easy to see how those things point in the general direction of their goals. Then they get stuck on what the rest of the steps might be and instead of really finding out, they usually begin to take action without a completed plan.”

-Taken from

“Begin at the End,” by Tom Hess

fear doesn’t ever make a person more passionate…
it makes a person more desperate to feel passion.

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by Thomas Moore…

“Soul is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.  It has to do with depth, value, relatedness, heart, and personal substance.” pg. 5

“Love of a new image of self leads to new knowledge about oneself and one’s potential.” pg. 63

How true!  How true!

How often do I see this image of myself in the eyes of somebody who loves me for who I am…

and can see in me, something that I have never seen before in myself!?

But it has “soul”….it has quality…yes, it has value, relatedness, heart and personal substance.

“With” means otherliness.

Eros is a connection “with” Another;

it requires the presence

and the participation of Another.

Which is why fantasy

is not eros.

Fantasy can be shared separately,

but it is not real.

Eros requires faith though;

not fantasy.

Faith is first a longing

to be with each other.

And Faith is about

what we do “with” each other…

and not about

what we do “for” each other…

(which is what hope is about).

Faith is the substance

of things hoped “for.”

Love encompasses both faith and hope.

Eros is the “moving force”

for the expression of our faith.

Eros ties the spiritual with the sexual:

our hearts and our souls,

our bodies and our spirits.

You can’t have passion

without having hope.

When you have passion,

you no longer fear.

“A breath of our mouth becomes the portrait of the world, the type of our thoughts and feelings in the other’s soul.  On a bit of moving air depends everything human that men on earth have ever thought, willed, done, and ever will do; for we would all still be roaming the forests if this divine breath had not blown around us, and did not hover on our lips a magic tone.”

–Johann Gottfried Herder,  “Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Man”

“Then say to yourself: ‘Every decision I make
is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.
I let go of grievances and choose miracles.’”

–Deepak Chopra, pg 214, from his book,
“The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”