Scott Lewicki

Former NASA Manager. #OPENTOWORK
Also a yoga, partner acrobatics, rock climbing, and hiking enthusiast

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
~ Douglas Adams

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.”
~ Osho

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"I would like a December
with Christmas lights off
and people's lights on."
~ Charles Bukowski

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
~ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.”
~ John Wooden

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

...and I am here at the waters
because in this space between spaces
where nothing speaks,
I am what it says.
~ Denis Johnson

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed."
~ Robert Galbraith

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
~ Usman B. Asif

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

“I alone can not change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
~ Mother Teresa

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
~ Herman Hesse

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"Refine thy rapture."
~ Aleister Crowley

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset.”
~ J. Krishnamurti

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
~ Voltaire

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.
~ Joan Didion

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
~ Carl Jung

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

THOSE AWAKE
When we convene again
to understand the world,
the first speaker will again
point silently out of the window
at the hillside in its season,
sunlit, under the snow,
and we will nod silently,
and silently stand and go.
~ Wendell Berry

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement . . . get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible. Never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."
Abraham Joshua Heschel

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”
~ John Burroughs