clarifying Clarity … (07/31/12)

“In the 20th century Albert Einstein predicted that humans would require a new manner of thinking in order to survive as a species. When I read the same, I thought something else … I thought that humanity will require a renewed commitment to gaining Clarity if we are to THRIVE. After all, despite what the […]

World Peace … (07/31/08)

“WORLD PEACE IS US. … WE ARE EACH WALKING AGENTS OF THE VISION OF PEACE WE CARRY INSIDE US.” ~ Kathleen Vande Kieft

on Loving the Enemy … (07/31/16)

What with all the conflict & strife & anger & sadness the world is seeing these days, I think what we ALL need now more than a ever is a heavy dose of “Love your Neighbor” — remembering, of course, that Jesus defined “neighbor” only one place in the entire Bible, and that he did […]

Minding – and crossing – the Gap … (07/31/17)

  “The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s true and one’s declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, and one’s writing becomes frightened and muddled — like a cuttlefish spurting out ink into once clear waters.” ~ inspired by George Orwell

Love never ends … (07/31/12)

“Though I fear her never coming to me, and fear her leaving me once she arrives, I am not that fear. Though I yearn to be by her side and desire to see Love for me dance in her eyes, I am not that desire. I am Love and I Love her … She wi […]

Goodness simply IS … (07/31/11)

“We generally interpret the world so heavily in terms of good & bad, happy & sad, nice & not nice, that the world doesn’t get a chance to speak for itself.” ~ Pema Chodron . To accept the dark side of others, we must Care for them during their darkest times. To accept the dark […]

Should we fight for friendships? … (07/30/08)

Oftentimes, one or more of the relationships in our lives reaches a clear point of separation — when one (or more) of our friends is clearly moving in a “different direction” than we are, or has adopted a set of beliefs that simply do not harmonize with our own. Sometimes it is we who are […]

There are no small acts of Love … (07/30/12)

And once you’ve risen above the gloom of regret & parted worry’s fearful fog, you will remember that it is LOVE that matters, and only Love … … and you will remember that the LOVE that matters is the Love that is a verb … … and you will remember that the most powerful LOVE […]

Another way to kill Death … (07/30/17)

  “Rest and comfort are two completely different things.  Rest is a planned temporary time of recuperation to refresh and refocus the mind and body.  Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and blandly accept their satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.” ~ via Gary Rohrmayer

Living forever … (07/30/13)

LOVE is your only lasting legacy … Got immortality?

escaping the Darkness … (07/30/12)

“I am a emotionaut; a psychological explorer; a wanderer of the inner Void … I choose to go where others fear to tread, so that when they are someday cast there against their will, I will be waiting to Guide them Home.” ~ anonymous In order to gain Clarity; in order to finally See where […]