on Celebrating Life … (08/06/12)

Hint: the most powerful way to Celebrate your life, … is to make another’s life a celebration. LOVE turns selfless service into a party … … got LOVE?

The most Beauty-full thing … (08/06/16)

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, for it is the numinous source of all true art and science … Indeed, he to whom enraptured emotion is but a stranger, and she who can no longer pause enclosed in awe, are both as good as dead. Their eyes are truly closed even […]

Being the Flowers … 12/05/13

Some people believe that they can “find Inner Peace” and know “true Happiness” via meditation or visualization or affirmation or some other mental practice … And who knows? … Maybe they can. Other individuals truly believe that they can “find God” and “be saved” through belief or prayer or worship or some other faith-based thinking […]

Living BIG … (08/05/15)

My Friends, today might be the only day you’ve got left, so go and LIVE IT BIG … Go out there and LOVE SOMEBODY!!!! P.S. This encouragement is only truly transformative when your Love becomes a verb — AND when it is given to either a stranger or an enemy … “Indolence is a delightful […]

Accept yourself to find yourSelf … (08/05/11)

“Sometimes when you feel miserable, you challenge people to see if they will still like you when you show them how ugly you can get … Sitting here being gentle with ourselves, we’re rediscovering something … The way to reunite with [your enlightened mind] is to lighten up.” ~ Pema Chodron . To lighten up, […]

the Tastiness of LOVE … (08/04/12)

A RECIPE FOR AWAKENING YOUR TRUE SELF Start with who you truly ARE … “Studies of our biological constitution make it increasingly clear that we are social creatures of meaning, who crave a sense of coherence and purpose.” ~ Cal Tech neuroscientist Steven Quartz Add a dose self-responsibility … “You’re not going to find the […]

Oneness is Reality … (08/04/11)

“We are not as solid as we think. In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives … The sense of a separate, isolated self and a separate, isolated other is a painful misunderstanding … True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves, but […]

Let truth go to let Truth in … (08/03/08)

“All things are manifestations of your belief system. If you let go of your fixed realities, your limitations, your fears and your doubts, magic can then enter your life.” ~ Rolling Thunder

Waking UP to Living … (08/03/12)

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive — and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” ~ Howard Thurman He saw her sadness, looked away, and walked past … He stopped, turned back to her, and offered to help. She […]

Providence is a choice … (08/03/11)

“Your life is like a river. Now if you’re aiming for a goal that isn’t your Destiny you’re always going to be swimming against the current. Young Gandhi wants to be a stock car driver – It’s not going to happen. Little Anne Frank wants to be a high school teacher – Tough [luck] Annie.  […]

To be filled with Glory … (08/03/16)

“Look at everything always as though you were either seeing it for the first or the last time: Thus will your time on Earth ever be filled with glory. Look at everyone always as though you were either seeing them for the first or the last time: Thus will your time on Earth ever be […]