Throughout our time building the Lucid Practice Community, we’ve met some incredible people. Dave Schneider is one of those people. After graduating from Harvard, Dave could have done basically anything. Instead of going the traditional route, Dave decided to travel the world with his girlfriend and inspire others to do the same. Dave’s site, A Couple Travelers was one of the original inspirations for Lucid Practice.

Dave recently started a new website, SelfMadeBusinessMan. His new site focuses on working and generating an income by working online.

We really enjoyed one of his first posts on ‘Why Living Abroad Can Be Great for Your Business.’

We encourage you to check it out when you have an opportunity.

Hostile Legacy put together some really awesome words on Unconditional Love.

Unconditional love trusts. That’s something I just realized sitting here thinking about it. Unconditional love wishes the best for the beloved. It will always communicate love, and it will not care about making itself happy, but it will be concerned only with the good of the beloved. Even when the beloved is unfaithful, even when the beloved is hurtful, even if like in the parable of the prodigal son the beloved runs away and disowns, still unconditional love will love, though its heart breaks and it is separated from the beloved by the beloved.

Unconditional love allows for the unconditional freedom of the beloved, because freedom is the greatest good. Our Father allows us to make mistakes because our greatest good resides in the freedom of our will. Unconditional love will not give assent to wrong choices, but it will love nonetheless and will ultimately allow the beloved to make choices; even bad choices. To watch the beloved make mistakes and harm himself is one of the hardest things to do in life, but such is required of unconditional love. Because unconditional love is without condition: it loves no matter what.

Click the link above to read the full passage.

The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Spanish: Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located at San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, north of the center of Quito. The grounds contain the Museo Etnográfico Mitad del Mundo, a museum about the indigenous ethnography of Ecuador.
The 30-meter-tall monument was constructed between 1979 and 1982 by Pichincha’s Province Council to replace an older, smaller monument built by Government of Ecuador under the direction of the geographer Luis Tufiño in 1936.

~Via Wiki

Over the next two weeks, most of the quotes you will see on Lucid Practice each morning will be from Joshua A Parable for Today. Paz and I recently read this book with friends/members of the Lucid Practice Community. In a previous post, Paz shared our book group’s thoughts and discussion which you can view here: Joshua A Parable for Today Discussion and Analysis. Have you ever read Joshua? What did you learn? Let us know in the comments section!

Joshua has inspired me. It touches on the deep subjects of love, simplicity, faith, and Trust.

Of the quotes I’ll share each morning over the next two weeks, I’ve slightly changed a select few to help us think more. While we often strive to think less (meditation), it’s also powerful (and fun!) to think critically about our lives and how we want our thoughts and dreams to manifest. Hopefully you will join in our conversation during the next two weeks as I pose quotes and questions to help you think critically.

~Brian