Snippets from The Art of Possibility by Benjamin & Rosamund Zander.(See a really cool TED talk by Benjamin Zander.)
It’s all invented anyway, so we might as well invent a story or a framework of meaning that enhances our quality of life and the life of those around us. …
Virtually everybody wakes up in the morning with the unseen assumption that life is about the struggle to survive and get ahead in a world of limited resources. …
Resources are likely to come to you in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life. … When you are oriented to abundance, you care less about being in control, and you take more risks. …
(John Imhof quoted): “We keep looking so hard in life for the ‘specific message,’ and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us, and within us all the time. We just have to stop demanding that it be on OUR terms or conditions, and instead open ourselves to the possibility that what we seek may be in front of us all the time.” …
(Kierkegaard quoted): “If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?”
