If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa Before I dive into today’s message an apology for my absence. I’ve been writing these messages for over a year now and initially decided to take a brief break to see if anyone noticed their absence, then I got caught in the [...]
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable — and lies are very comfortable because you don’t have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you [...]
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel Transformation begins in your own zip code. The way that we shift the planet is to shift ourselves. You cannot be an advocate for peace, [...]
Whatever you can’t laugh at, owns you. Ramtha Do you ever worry and fuss about something only to realize after a bit that it wasn’t such a big deal? How about the really serious issues like death, divorce and debt? Are you losing any sleep over those? The sooner you come to the realization that [...]
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider. Dr. Joyce Brothers Total commitment is the litmus test for your energy. If you’re still thinking on it and in the ‘creational phase’ you might have gotten off on a tangent. One thing is [...]
Defy your age. Don’t deny your age. Martina Navratilova Age is an especially juicy arena to play outside the box. Why is age defined as a minus, as something to be avoided? Why is it associated with loss of vitality and beauty? Who says that age is a pre-defined, set-in-stone state? Defy the preconceived, programmed [...]
The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, [...]
Kindness is a language we all understand. Even the blind can see it and the deaf can hear it. Mother Teresa Is kindness something you reserve for select people and situations? Is kindness something you relegate to senior citizens and sad strangers? Do you find that you can be kind to the needy or the [...]
Self expression is a function of responsibility. Werner Erhard Do you hesitate or hold back from expressing who you are in certain situations or with certain people? Who are you being when you are ‘just you’ . . . when no one is watching or judging? How would it feel to be able to do [...]
Environment is stronger than willpower. Paramahansa Yogananda Would you prefer to struggle with change or have it pull you forward? Sometimes change is thrust upon you by external events: job loss, passing of a loved one, an illness or an accident. It can seem inevitable in such moments to resist the ‘reality’ of what is [...]