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Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 7
March 17, 2025
What remarkable persons will you meet in the future? Who will come into your life to provide the guidance, words, insight, inspiration, and opportunity you need at that specific time? We cannot know who it will be, but we have some leverage in determining when and how it happens.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 6
March 16, 2025
We value the remarkable people who have come into our lives. They guide, protect, and influence us. Many embody our ideals, hopes, and aspirations. Some open up worlds of thought and activities that we would never have experienced without them. Some of these dear people have always been in our lives, and some for only a brief encounter. Yet their contributions to our soul are invaluable.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 5
March 15, 2025
Sometimes, the truth is very simple. But it takes just the right person to get it across.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 4
March 14, 2025
The word remarkable is from the Old French word “remarquable,” which means noteworthy. We have all had noteworthy people in our lives who made lasting impressions and who helped shape us. They are so vital to us that their influence remains, whether they are in our lives now, or not.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 3
March 13, 2025
Have you had any remarkable teachers? If so, you know the kind of impact they can make. It could have been the entire subject they taught, or it could have been one remark to you, or one conversation they had with you. Whatever the impact, it stuck with you in some “remarkable” way and their impact influences you to this day.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 2
March 12, 2025
In my mid-thirties, I was on a private retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. During this part of my life, I occasionally went to this beautiful Trappist monastery when I needed clarity and comfort. I was on this particular retreat to discern something. My father had been stricken with a stroke, which altered his behavior. He was sometimes irrational and verbally aggressive, which would scare my son Ben, who was only two at the time.
Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 1
March 11, 2025
The movie, “Meetings with Remarkable Men,” is a biographical drama based on George Gurdjieff’s book by the same name. The story is about his search for truth as he journeys worldwide. On these travels, which began in the late 1800s, he met many people and learned many things. Along the way, Gurdjieff met with different teachers from whom he learned secrets about the universe, including the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram. The movie “Meetings with Remarkable Men” was released in the United States on August 5, 1979; Peter Brook directed it and stars Terence Stamp and Dragan Maksimović.