This weeks quote comes from the book "Mans Search for Himself" by Rollo May.  Rollo May is one of my favorite authors speaking on creativity and courage and the kind of awarenesses that are necessary for our highest evolution: 

"the more self-awareness a person has, the more alive he is.  "The more consciousness," remarked Kierkegaard, "the more self." Many people keep busy all the time as a way of covering up anxiety; their activism is a way fo running from themselves.  Our emphasis on self awareness certainly includes acting as an expression of the alive, integrated self, but is is the opposite to activism-the opposite, that is, to acting as an escape from self-awareness.  Aliveness often means the capacity not to act, to be creatively idle--which may be more difficult for most modern people than to do something. "To be idle," Robert Louis Stevenson accurately wrote, "requires a strong sense of personal identity." Self-awareness, as we have proposed it, brings back into the picture the required kinds of aliveness--the arts of contemplation and meditation for example.  It brings a new appreciation for being something rather than merely doing something"

I for one tend to get very busy with doing.  Of course, doing is not a bad thing, but one of the things I am striving for this year is staying in balance.  So this reminder to be ware and conscious is a great one for me.  Balance helps me to stay motivated because I don't swing to far in one direction and burn myself out.  What about you?  Have you swung to far away from being?  Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Remember, time is short. Do your happy dance. Enjoy life!