Love is enlightenment … (09/25/11)

“If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” ~ James M. Barrie . “He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who Loves finds the gates open.” ~ R. Tagore . “Close your book of […]

Amazing Things will happen … (09/24/13)

“All I ask is one thing: Please do not be cynical … It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life ever gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re Kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you — AMAZING THINGS WILL HAPPEN … It’s just true.” […]

Redecorating our “Normal” … (12/24/15)

My dear Friends, it isn’t strange that our own lives touch so many others … It isn’t strange that every breath we take is a breath shared with many, and that every step we take is a step danced with all … It isn’t strange that every choice we make (and every choice we don’t) […]

Love demands risk … (09/24/11)

“Of all forms of caution, caution in Love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell . “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, […]

Love is either all-in or nothing … (09/23/11)

“For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true Love never did run smooth.” ~ William Shakespeare . “You know it’s Love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.” ~ Frank Herbert . “For one human being to Love another: that is perhaps […]

Love requires a sacrifice of delusion … (09/23/11)

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno . “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” ~ William Shakespeare . “Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, […]

Coming to an End … (09/22/14)

I think if I were to revamp the world, I would start by having everyone set aside four minutes of their lives to watch this video … and then I would in-Courage them to go forth and do something — ANYTHING — to help make it come alive. Amen … Let it be so. ……………………… […]

Love is right Here … (09/22/11)

“Are you looking for me? I am next to you. My shoulder is even now touching yours. When you really look for me, you will instantly feel me everywhere around you … Others believe that the diamond of Love has fallen onto the road, that it remains lost in the dust of disappointments and rejection. […]

inspiration = realization … (09/22/11)

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” … It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our […]

your Love is a River … 09/21/12

“The river is everywhere at the same time, at its source and at its mouth … in the ocean and in the mountains. It is everywhere, and only the present exists for it — not even a shadow of its past, nor a shadow of its future.” ~ inspired by Herman Hesse The same is […]

Every deed enough … (09/21/14)

“I alone cannot change the world, but I CAN cast a stone across the waters, and thereby create many ripples.” ~ inspired by Mother Teresa We need not do anything “amazing” or “magnificent”.  For it is the small acts of Great Kindness that are allWays more than enough — each act we engage; every day […]