“I try … I fail. I try again … I fail again. I try harder … I fail even worse. I am determined to see Love “win”, so I try again … I fail spectacularly. I let go of all my desires … I simply Love for Love’s sake … … … & I succeed.” […]
I have often searched the depths of my mind for peace, & I have journeyed over & again to the ends of the earth looking for Love. Both these quests have always ended in vain. And yet today I seek these things no more, for I find them, whole and untarnished, every time I give […]
“It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children … I want to know if you will […]
What the Camino Teaches … Traditional wisdom teaches us that life is not about suffering, but rather a call to “be happy”. The Camino teaches us that true Joy comes not with less pain or more pleasure, but rather during the transcendence of our discomforts via acts of Kindness. Traditional wisdom teaches us that your […]
“Our problems cease to trouble us when we realize they are simply blessings in disguise.” ~ Ishaah “All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us.” ~ Gandalf “The life-span of the butterfly is precisely the right length.” ~ Tom Robbins There is no key […]
“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham Today is Halloween, the day of the dead, so I guess the thing we need to really talk about is death. It’s the last thing we’d like to talk about, […]
“Have you ever thought about dressing up as the Noble Woman or the Compassionate Man you most want to be … and then simply removing the mask?” ~ inspired by Heidi Fuller
“I’m guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it’s a naivete that I really don’t want to abandon, not even now.” ~ Jock Sturges From a very early age, we are all steeped in a culture that encourages us to “be informed” that we might “act wisely” and thereby “live safely”. Of course, the price […]
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.” ~ Zachary Scott We are taught that we need to analyze our past in order to remember our mistakes — to remember the choices that didn’t work out well for us so that we can then make “better […]
Some have been pretty critical of the consumption of alcohol. Some have said that alcohol takes control of our lives … (“One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.” ~ Brendan Behan) Some have noted that we cannot “become enlightened” if we also choose to imbibe; that it is merely an […]
I’ll explain why KINDNESS WORKS in a later post, and yet it is enough for you to remember it today while you ACT ACCORDINGLY. So go have fun shaking things up — doing so with thoughts of radical forgiveness, acts of irreverent Kindness, and a life of Joy-filled resolve! If it is to be effective, […]
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