“When
I tell people, ‘If I can do it, you can do it.’ Its true. I’m not
any different than a lot of people. I’m a 5’4” woman without a
college education. It’s not age related, either. People will ask me if
it’s too late to learn to fly. No it’s not. You’ll be a lot better
at it. You’ll have better judgment. Age, gender, we’re all victims
of our own preconceived idea of what we can do and not do.”Patty
Wagstaff
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's
possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St.
Francis of Assisi
"
I have Learned a lot about Airplanes; but I have learned more about
people."
PAUL
H. POBEREZNY FOUNDER
OF EAA
 Make
the difficult look easy, the easy look spectacular, and never attempt
the impossible! Bud
Granly
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 Randy
Pausch - the
last lecture
11
min. video full
100 min. video
"tears are such a gift"
 A
Navajo Story - A grandson asks, is life hard, an elder Navajo shares
that life at times feels like a internal roaring fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil,
it is the wolf of anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, ego,
self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, superiority, fear of healing,
fear of exploring, fear of succeeding, fear of walking in another's
moccasins, The other wolf is good, it is the wolf of joy, peace, love,
kindness, hope, serenity, humility, compassion, forgiveness and caring.
The grandson thought about this and then asked, but grandfather which
wolf wins? His grandfather replied; "the wolf that I chose to
feed".
 Inspiration
- When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all you thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends all
limitations, your conscious expands in every direction, and you find
yourself in a great new wonderful world. Dormant forces, facilities
become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far that
you dreamed yourself to be. - Patanjali
 Forgiveness
is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Dr.
Robin Smith - "let me be the gentle voice of compassion.
 Life
can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
When you label me, you negate me!
Soren Kiekegaard
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 I
don’t think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn’t have. I’ve
just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been
fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren’t so
lucky to make it. It’s not how close can you get to the ground, but how
precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life
that you want to be the world’s lowest flying aviator you might do it
for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no
longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close. Bob
Hoover
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 The
Ship by Dr. Harold Blake Walker
I am standing on the seashore. A ship at
my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the
blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and
watch her until at length she lands like a speck of white cloud just
where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, 'There, she's gone.' Gone where? Gone from
my sight, that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spars
as when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living
freight to their place of destination. Her diminished size is in me and
not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There,
she's gone!', there are other eyes that are watching her coming and
other voices ready to take up the glad shout, 'There she comes!'"
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Dear Steve and Anita,
Rachel finished her work on Earth and left the stage in a manner that
leaves those of us left behind with a cry of agony in our hearts, as the
fragile thread of our faith is dealt with so violently. Is anyone strong
enough to stay conscious through such teachings as you are receiving?
Probably very few. And even they would only have a whisper of equanimity
and peace amidst the screaming trumpets of their rage grief, horror, and
desolation.
I can't assuage of your pain with any words, nor should I, for your pain
is Rachel's legacy to you. Not that she or I would inflict such pain by
choice, but there it is. And it must burn its purifying way to
completion. For something in your dies when you bear the unbearable, and
it is only in the dark of night of the soul that your are prepared to
see as God sees, and to love as God loves.
Now is the time to let your grief find expression, no false strength.
Now is the time to sit quietly and speak to Rachel, and thank her for
being with you all these years and encourage her to go on with what ever
her work is, knowing that you will grow in compassion and wisdom from
this experience. In my heart, I know you and she will meet again and
again, and recognize the many ways in which you have known each other.
Any when you meet, you will know, in a flash, what now it is not given
to you to know: why this had to be the way it was.
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our
hearts, if we keep them open to God will find their own intuitive
way. Rachel came through you to do her work on earth, which includes her
manner of death. Now her soul is free, and the love that you can share
with her is invulnerable to the winds of changing time and space. In
that deep love, include me.
In Love, Ram Dass |
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