Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.


“The last thing I remembered I was a mature man with the sap still running, driving a car in the night. Now I was middle-aged and achy, dizzy too. It was a foregone conclusion that I would never be young again.”
― Little Green
― Little Green
“A boundary provides structure, protection, and direction to emotions or behaviors.”
― From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
― From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
“The Masculine needs four key nutrients for the nervous system to truly ground and reset. The first is time alone with no demands (which is not the same as meditation). The second is creating time to receive the gifts of the natural world. Third is time spent in depth and reflection with other men (which is even better when there are no demands and nature is involved).”
― From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
― From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World

“Along with anxiety and fear my people had inherited spite and rage for the centuries of oppression that we were reminded of almost every day of our lives. To experience the malice of generations in a moment is a taste so bitter that it could make an otherwise healthy man retch.”
― Little Green
― Little Green

“I liked Evander because he was smart enough to make sense out of the abstractions of language. Many young people hear you say the pot is hot but they still have to touch it.”
― Little Green
― Little Green
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