Monday, May 17, 2010

Feel like winning or setting it aside again and again...

I come across the strangest quotes and often stand back wondering what I’m supposed to do with them.



Is it a game of tag? Am I to pick up the quote and run with it until I find someone to toss it to? Is it the classic kid’s game Telephone where I pass it to the person sitting next to me and by the time it makes it around the circle it’s far from being the original thought?



Good quotes tend to bend my day. If you study enough religions and spiritualities you begin to open your eyes to all forms of quote sharing that blow past common communication.


An owl or possum sitting above or below is an incredible way to talk. But were you listening? The average passerby points, giggles like a child discovering a new toy then moves about their day without thinking, “What was that supposed to mean?”



I love watching patrons at a Chinese Restaurant who feverishly fiddle their way through dinner trying to figure out what year they were born: dog, chicken, cow and lion? I almost never look…it never matches my mood. It’s like Native American animal signs, how many people do you know who think their totem animal is the wolf or the eagle? The first paragraph doesn’t always feature the best part of the story…dig a little deeper and discover a deeper truth. There's nothing wrong with being an earth worm.



Quotes are everywhere! It’s ultimately up to you to listen or keep on walking.



Assumption quotes are the most dangerous—that’s when someone looks into your next thought and participates with a soul dance leaving you in a state of, “Oh, oh that was meant for me.” Master Harris is brilliant at this game…he’ll send chi energy waves from a conversation with you onto the path of someone several feet away. He believes it sharpens your listening habits and puts you into an act of skill building…there’s a big chance your front kick is just as much off as the one he’s tossing the thought toward.



Making it dangerous are the people who use you as a tool to pass the message. They speak through you knowing your action and reaction will give their quote just enough energy to make it over the mountain top and straight into the hands of the person who needs it more.



I broke bread with a minister in the park yesterday…words sharper than nails. Couldn’t shake it all day—kept thinking the quotes were perfectly ripe for my picking only to realize my baskets were already full. Not quite as peaceful as my day with a Native American Medicine Man facing his nation’s history continuing to be erased by mans desire to construct. No anger...he walks in peace.



In both situations Master Harris’ approach to message delivery could’ve been used but like Telephone…the end result of his or her origin might not equal the purpose of their being enough energy given to making the correction—therefore the quote falls miles short from the opposite side of the valley’s we constantly create.



The quote I came across might not mean anything to you…my methods of sharing are no different than another writers next idea—put it into play and when the time is write, the required imagination will hear from the pages and be draw to a better destination. I can’t be the only person who walks into a book store with no clue what they’re going to purchase only to realize an authors written word had been screaming my name 25 miles away.



Books call out to me just like the owl that hoots in the backyard at all hours of the night. I’ll walk outside and calmly ask, “What is it going to take for you to speak English just once?”



The latest quote came to me in the shape of a short story based on glider airplanes created by dreamers who find value in reaching the open sky. The story speaks of how the pilot carefully crafted a beautiful piece of flight, each curve serving a purpose that would lift him higher or silently place him next to natures next kiss. Upon the completion of his latest project, he remembers looking out the window only to notice, the rope connecting him from being blown away on the ground had not been released…if the plane taking him into the air was to suddenly begin to move, his plan would suddenly be interrupted by a single rope that kept him connected to the ground.



How many ropes keep you from reaching your dreams? What if you climbed out of the ship you’ve shaped and disconnected from everything holding you back?



Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show Friday…Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers were on Saturday Night Live—age means nothing in the world of success. Cut the rope and find flight or your boss will continue to take credit for your hard work and dedication.



According to Sam Phillips of Sun Records, his stars of the future were Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash not a blonde truck driver who took note of their dark image and built upon its presentation by taking the grease from his big rig wheels and rubbing it through his hair. The receptionist flipped over his looks…Sam caught on and made Elvis Presley a household name.



The umbilical chord is the first rope cut in life…learn from your mothers greatest quote.



arroecollins@clearchannel.com

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