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We all know that in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s house is swept away in a hurricane and she ends up in Oz, where she has to go on a long, mystical journey to finally get home again (“There’s no place like home”). Metaphorically, she has to find herself and her true spiritual center. Her journey back home—or back to that essential center place within—is the mythical journey that we all take in life, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s about the quest for meaning, a sense of purpose, love, and connection. Life is about finding our way to this place and living it energetically on and off the courts, no matter what “storms” may happen. Joseph Campbell returned to this idea again and again and in the process inspired a number of artists.
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
We must illuminate the ego’s ruses and see how it sabotages our progress. I think that everyone would agree with this concept of practicing and playing, so why won’t we do it? As I said before, it is because we are in a hurry - we need to sound good today, in our quest for a good self-image. We aren’t in touch with our own inner beauty and so we seek it in our level of play. Self-centeredness, which some musicians suffer from in the extreme, is the wall between us and mastery.
Effortless Mastery
Kenny Werner
Perhaps WorldCom benefited the most from employing EBITDA because with its creative capitalization of $11 billion in ordinary expenses, its EBITDA looked even better because those capital expenses were not part of the computation. Not only were the innovators cooking the books, there was a double boiler going: there were no ordinary expenses, and capital expenses did not count under EBITDA.
The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse
Marianne M. Jennings
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