Quotation Tuesday 19!
Happy Quotation Tuesday! Let me ask you this: Deep down, do you hope to make a difference in the world with your life, to make it a better place?
Do you have no clue how to proceed towards doing that?
Well what you need to do is get a jet-pack! No not really. I just really wanted to put a photo of a jet-pack on this blog because I find that for some reason looking at photos of people in jet-packs makes me happy.
But back to this week's Quotation Tuesday, and the question of how to make the world a better place.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Thurman
So then, the question is, what makes you come alive? What subject, every time it comes up, seems to bring its own energy and inspiration with it... almost like the idea itself is wearing a jet-pack? (See what I did there? The photo is now relevant.) What topic is hard for you to stop talking about even when it's obvious that people around you are bored?
That thing, the thing that's fun to think about even when you're exhausted, that thing that you've bored family members and blind dates talking endlessly about ... start there. At first your passion may not seem like an obvious way to change the world. It's okay if your favorite topic to discuss is not so directly heroic as creating sustainable food sources or inventing caps for underwater oil leaks.
Just start doing what you love and keep an open mind... you might be surprised where the path leads when you combine the fact that you're hoping to change the world, and you're doing what makes you come alive.
-Brigitte
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Bill Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Brigitte, I love your videos and have enjoyed reading your articles so this is nothing more than a correction. The quote has been attributed to Howard Thurman and one Harold Whitman, but not Howard Whitman. The quote sounds like something Dr. Thurman would have said, though I do not recall seeing it in any of his many books or printed sermons (all of which I have read). It has also come to my attention that "Harold Thurman Whitman" may not even exist.
Joe436 Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Talking about computer programing excites me but bores everyone else. Since I'm already a computer programer I guess the next step is a jet pack. I've always wanted to ride a jet pack since I saw James Bond do it.
Bud Tuesday, June 08, 2010
From what I have researched “Harold Whitman” is Dr. Howard Thurman’s fiction name, so lets make it even more confusing.
None the less it is how your applied the quote is what interests me and not the fact that you may have mistyped the name of the author.
Thanks Brigitte
romeo Wednesday, June 09, 2010
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine
if you spend more time enjoying what's already here ~you'll notice that everything is always better just the way it is now.
Brigitte Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Thanks for the comment, Bill! Like you, I did notice that there were many different names this quote was attributed to, depending on the source. But my best digging pointed to Harold Thurman as the true author of the quote.