If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Martin Luther King Your reality is what speaks, isn’t that true? It’s not what’s in your head, it’s what you believe enough in to make it so that speaks what you truly believe about ‘reality.’ It doesn’t matter what belief system propels you into questioning [...]
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Conan Doyle [Photo by Apesara] Truth is like a mirage, shimmering in the distance, it looks one way from afar and it can be quite startling when you get ‘nose up’ to it. It can even be downright shocking and against [...]
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem When you get upset about change it’s usually that you have an attachment to what you ‘already know.’ This is the biggest landscape for transformation. Instead of avoiding discomfort, dive deeply into it. I promise that you will be more [...]
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey It’s my birthday today and the fact that I’m sharing it is quite a shift. I used to wait for people to remember and to celebrate for me. That was quite some time ago, when I sought [...]
“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.” Jean Houston What would happen if you entertained, on a regular basis, your capacity for brilliance, magnificence and sheer genius? Now I’m not talking ego based “I’m better at this or that”. We’re talking natural, organic flow of innate talents and intelligence. What [...]
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht. Fear can be like a sheer veneer covering the most mundane aspects of your world. One of the ways in which Merriam Webster defines the word veneer is as ‘a layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to be glued [...]
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows. Nisargadatta Maharaj This paradox of body and spirit, mind and matter is a bridge beyond ordinary into extraordinary realms of being. Here you get to explore the stories you were [...]
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. William Blake Remember the film Groundhog Day, wherein Bill Murray gets to live the same day over and over and over again? Check in for a moment and see if there isn’t some area of [...]
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe Well, have you seriously considered the dream factor? If it is a dream – and who’s to say what ‘really is’ – why not really DREAM! What if a big dream takes no more energy than a plain vanilla [...]
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen. Erasmus This seems like a no brainer, right? Then how is it that sometimes you spend more time spinning your wheels in thought than taking action. At least if you try [...]