The Daily Ripple
The Daily Ripple
| “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh~ The calm you find in the morning doesn’t have to stay in the morning. The Dude is working on that one in real time — trying to carry it into the traffic, the noise, whatever Friday throws at him. It’s a work in progress. But it’s worth the work. Take it with you today. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day What would today look like if you stayed calm all the way through it? |
“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.”~ Proverbs 12:1 (NIV) ~ Yep. That’s in the Bible. It really says stupid. Not everybody grew up with that book, and that’s fine. But it’s out there, and every now and then we stumble across a line that makes us want to dig a…
Carpe diem.~ Horace ~ Monday gets a bad rap. Many grumble about it like it’s a punishment. But look at it differently — Monday is the one day the whole week hands you a blank compass. No mistakes yet. No momentum in the wrong direction. Just a fresh line pointing wherever you decide to point…
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are ~ Yesterday was meditation. Think of that as the workout. You set time aside, sit down, breathe, and center yourself. Mindfulness is the muscle you use the rest of the day. Not on a cushion. In…
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”~ Rumi ~ The hard part isn’t responding. The hard part is hearing it. Because life gets loud. Real loud. And somewhere underneath all that noise… there’s a call with your name on it. Something that lights you up from the inside. Something that makes you lean in…
“Do the right thing even when no one is watching.”~Unknown~ Nobody saw you do it. You got up anyway. You made the call you’d been putting off. You chose the salad. You bit your tongue when you didn’t have to. You showed up when it would’ve been easy not to. Nobody clapped. Nobody liked it….
“On the road to find out.”~Cat Stevens~ Nobody hands you a map. You just start walking. Wrong turns, dead ends, long stretches of nothing. And then one day something clicks and you realize the road was the point all along. Not the destination. The walking. Keep moving. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the DayYou don’t…