Take the extra step.

Do something more than what is necessary or required. The next time around it will be a bit easier and a bit more organized to do.

- Vigs

A glimpse of the future ...

... in those who seek to learn and to understand.

- Vigs

Allow goodness to shine through.

Feel the burden lighten when one finds it. Be inspired by the good work and the gentle words spoken by those selflessly doing important things.

- Vigs

Layer sophistication with simplicity.

Simple will quite often suffice very nicely.

- Vigs

To withdraw ones claim, to give away freely

... knowing that what truly belongs stays close.

- Vigs

Choosing to be a mirror, clear glass, lens, polarizer, or prism.

Some of life's optical metaphors.

- Vigs

It is in daily routine that life is made

... or gets unmade.

- Vigs

The elephant in the room could be ...

... a donkey.

- Vigs

Develop and use the position one holds responsibly.

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Make each exchange a bi-directional one or better.

In kind or otherwise, involving giving and benefiting everyone involved to some degree.

- Vigs

Consider opposites from different perspectives and contexts.

Often a net gain may be achieved by increasing the positive and decreasing the negative. Working on just one dimension is often easier, indeed a lot of the effort is spent on doing just that. Consider other perspectives and contexts as well for a better understanding of what is being attempted. Encourage and reward what works. Acknowledge what doesn't so that with effort and time if possible its effects can be reduced.

- Vigs

Too much or too soon

... is about the same as it being too little, or coming too late.

- Vigs

At the center of silence.

At the core. A testing ground of doubts and reasons, fears and hopes, ...

- Vigs

When is equal, unequal?

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Vision, ability and hope.

Transform reality.

- Vigs

Contentment is ...

... priceless.

- Vigs

See goodness and be drawn to it.

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Test the boundaries of ones understanding

... ever seeking out news contexts and meanings.

- Vigs

Encapsulate the spectrum of feelings a topic evokes with gentleness . . .

... in word and tone. Something most everyone will acknowledge, whether reasonable or absurd. Especially the absurd.

- Vigs

Seek an education that dissolves prejudice.

Include others and grow strong.

- Vigs

To see the world as it could be ...

... one needs vision and insight. To step beyond what can be seen, into the realm of possibility and insight.

- Vigs

The way around is above.

- Vigs

A big change in the distant future, requires but a small change in the present.

- Vigs

Organize space and time.

Plan to file so that it is easy to retrieve, remember and repeat even when it is difficult to do so. Plan the calendar so that items of priority, urgency and routine are well accommodated.

- Vigs

The past is the foundation for the future.

As is the present. Strengthen the future, by strengthening what we have now.

- Vigs