 By Jim Selman | Bio
New Year’s is a time to reflect and remember.
I was reviewing some old ‘resolutions’ and came upon one that has
served me well over the years. It may be one of the most useful and
relevant bits of wisdom I have to share with people.
“The important thing is to choose what we have and
give up our attachment to what we don’t have—so we can have the space
to create our dreams and manifest our intention.” [ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I've
been thinking about why I'm not generating the kind of passion and
purpose that I have had in the past. What occurred to me is that when I
was younger, my ‘work’ or the cause I was working for was something
that I was attached to. I mean ‘attached to’ in the sense that my point
of view at the time seemed to be ‘the’ way or ‘the’ truth and, with all
the energy and confidence of youth, I charged the barricades and felt
empowered and inspired by the certainty that I was on the ‘side of the
angels’ and a new world was coming.[ Read More]
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I am in the process of reorganizing my photographs. One of the most
enjoyable fruits of the technological tree in my opinion has been the
digital camera and all the cool software that has been developed for
playing with our pics. I have been into the shooting of digital
pictures for four and have even bought one of the fancy Nikon SLR
models. Unfortunately, it is too complicated and not at all intuitive,
so until I have time to take some lessons, it patiently waits for me to
play with it. In the meantime, I am content with my new little 10
megapixel Sony “point and shoot”. Now you may wonder why anyone would
need that many megapixels? The fact is I am a sucker for the latest
feature or gizmo. After all, you never know when you will want to blow
up an image to the size of a billboard and all those megapixels might
reveal a great new photographic talent! Anyway, today I discovered that I have accumulated 3,700 pictures from
various trips, vacations and ‘art photography’ expeditions.[ Read More]
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One of the things we need to learn if we haven’t learned it by the time
we reach retirement and our ‘golden years’ is how to deal with loss.
Aside from the obvious loss of friends and family though death and
incapacitating illness, we have a host of other things we can ‘lose’,
such as systems of support, material possessions, our physical
abilities and perhaps most importantly—possibility. Not everyone
experiences loss and certainly not in the same way. But loss, whether
real or perceived, is one of the primary factors that can either keep
us trapped in the past and living into an ever narrower future or it
can be a source of great learning and freedom as we grow older. Buddha taught that suffering is due largely to our attachments.[ Read More]
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