on finding great Happiness … (02/01/13)
Here, an immensely uncomfortable yet highly empowering Truth: great Happiness and great sadness are always born of identical circumstances.
Here, an immensely uncomfortable yet highly empowering Truth: great Happiness and great sadness are always born of identical circumstances.
Being a powerful “Force for Good” does not require us to do anything magnanimous or amazing. We don’t have to “save the world” or lead a civil rights march on Selma or liberate India from tyranny to change others’ lives for the better … In our current society — one that is steeped in fear […]
“To live means to be creative, and to be creative means to be in love with life. You can be this kind of creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance the Beauty of something nearby; you want to bring a little more music to a relationship, a little more poetry […]
We’ve been told all our lives that we are nothing on our own; that we must join a like-minded group in order for our concerns to be heard or our injustices to be rectified; that real & lasting change can only come “from above” (in the form of government) or “from on high” (in the […]
Happiness isn’t an absence of sadness — true Happiness is feeling sad, and yet reaching out to others … Happiness is being in the middle of the storm, … and yet choosing to dance anyway.
“Did I offer peace today, and did I do so with my actions more than my words? … Did I bring a smile to a stranger’s face today? … Did I say words of healing to a Friend? … Did I set aside my fear of those who are different today? … Did I reach […]