Majicman Notes

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery. But you can only see life… Read more

Life is a verb, not a noun. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read more

There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. I think that diet is… Read more

We are all wired to fear the downsides of uncertainty, but we forget that change, creation, transformation and innovation rarely show up without some measure of it. Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr The Upside… Read more

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found… Read more

Every act of making matters. How we make matters. I like to remember, and remark with regularity, that the word “making” occupies seventeen pages in the Oxford English Dictionary, so there are multiple possibilities for… Read more

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman Read more

Humans, as anthropologists often point out, embrace magical thinking, or mystical explanations for things we do not understand; we need hope in a scary world. We’re also pretty adept at ignoring things that might undermine… Read more

Mindfulness is an effortless, simple process that consists of drawing novel distinctions, that is, noticing new things. The more we notice, the more we become aware of how things change depending on the context and… Read more

In reply to a question about what advice he’d give to aspiring actors, Hoffman said, “This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he’s right: even if you’re auditioning for something that you… Read more