“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.”
― Mark Twain
What pushes you to see beyond the surfaces of things?
A Different Apple
One bad apple might spoil the bunch, but an apple of a different color never hurt anybody. Belonging to a group is not the same as being indistinguishable from those you associate with.
How will you support non-conformity today?
Ripples
Ripples keep moving out indefinitely until something stops them. Whether the ripples are created by water falling in a pool or by the sound waves produced by a violin, every wave continues until its path is blocked. When you put something out in the world, you never can know how far it might go.
What waves will you make today? How will you get out of the way so that someone else’s ripple can move forward?
Sympathy
“Sympathy is the child of imagination”
― Clarence Darrow
How do you use your imagination to put yourself in someone else’s shoes?
Recycled
When the tire is no longer useful for a car, it is still good for a swing. But when summer ends, or children grow up, what is the swing good for? Sometimes the answer comes with patience, sometimes with determination, sometimes with burst of creativity that makes everything new.
How do you hold on to your sense of purpose in life during the times when you feel adrift?