Musings

…that to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it for, in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. –Neale Donald Walsch “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And thatContinue reading “Musings”

A Dish of Forgiveness All Around

“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear …. When we release the fearful past andContinue reading “A Dish of Forgiveness All Around”

Having Money Give Options

“Without Freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.” –Dalai Lama “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” –Nelson Mandela “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” –Mark Twain This past weekendContinue reading “Having Money Give Options”

Suffering is Optional

“Let us never allow our daily doubts or private fears to blind us to the blessings all around.” –Brendon Burchard “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” –Carl Jung “The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.” –Byron Katie Sometimes the cosmic tumblersContinue reading “Suffering is Optional”

Fear and Decisions

“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” –Pema Chodron “Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fear is a liar. It whispers in our ear thatContinue reading “Fear and Decisions”